The plants are found in mossy patches on the north hillsides about Chillicothe. The pale ochraceous yellow and the very fibrillose caps and stem will attract the attention of the collector at once. The caps are one to two and a half inches broad and the stem is two to three inches long.
Inocybe subochracea. Peck.
Pileus thin, conical or convex, sometimes expanded, generally umbonate, fibrillose squamulose, pale ochraceous-yellow.
The gills are rather broad, attached, emarginate, whitish, becoming brownish-yellow.
The stem is equal, whitish, slightly fibrillose, solid. Peck.
This is a small plant from one to two inches high whose cap is scarcely over an inch broad. It grows in open groves where the soil is sandy. It is found on Cemetery Hill from June to October.
Inocybe geophylla, var. violacea. Pat.
Figure 219.—Inocybe geophylla, var. violacea.