The gills are grayish-brown with a tinge of violet at times; adnexed, rather close, ventricose.
The stem is solid, slender, scaly, somewhat lighter than the pileus. The spores are 8–10×5µ.
This plant seems to be a late grower. I did not find it till about the 15th of October and it continued till the last of November. I had found two other species on the same hill earlier in the season. No Inocybes are good to eat.
Inocybe pyriodora. Pers.
Pyriodora, smelling like a pear. The pileus is one to two inches broad, quite strongly umbonate, at first conical, expanded, covered with fibrous adpressed scales, in old plants the margin turned up, smoky or brown-ochre becoming pale.
The gills are notched at the stem, not crowded, dingy-white, becoming nearly cinnamon-brown, somewhat ventricose.
The stem is two to three inches long, stuffed, firm, equal, pale, apex pruinose, veil very fugacious. Flesh tinged with red.
Common in the woods in September and October. The plant is not edible.