Pluteus granularis. Pk.
Photo by C. G. Lloyd.
Figure 190.—Pluteus granularis.
Pileus is convex, then expanded, slightly umbonate, wrinkled, sprinkled with minute blackish granules, varying in color from yellow to brown.
The gills are rather broad, close, ventricose, free, whitish, then flesh-colored.
The stem is equal, solid, pallid, or brown, usually paler at the top, velvety with a short, close pile.
The spores are subglobose, about .0002 inch in diameter. The plant is two to three inches high, pileus one to two inches broad, stem one to two lines thick. Peck, 38th Rep. N. Y. State Bot.
This is a much smaller species than P. cervinus, but its esculent qualities are quite as good. Found from July to October.