Pediades is from a Greek word meaning a plain or a field, referring to its being found on lawns and pastures.
The pileus is somewhat fleshy, convex, then plane, obtuse or depressed, dry, finally opaque, frequently inclined to be minutely rivulose.
The gills are attached to the stem but not adnate to it, broad, subdistant, only a few entire brownish, then a dingy cinnamon.
The stem is pithy or stuffed, rather wavy and silky, yellowish, base slightly bulbous. The spores are of a brownish-rust color, 10–12×4–5µ.
If the small bulb at the base of the stem is examined, it will be found to be formed chiefly of mycelium rolled together around the base. It is found on lawns and richly manured pastures from May to November. Use only the caps. This plant is usually known as semiorbicularis.
Naucoria paludosella. Atkinson n. sp.
Plate XXXIII. Figure 229.—Naucoria paludosella.
Showing mode of growth, clay-brown scales on the caps.
Paludosella is a diminutive of palus, gen. paludis, a swamp or marsh.