The gills are rounded behind and adnexed, free, soft, distant, often crisped, gray.

The stem is about two inches long, fibrous, hollow, or stuffed, equal, at first covered with a white down, fragile, gray.

The spores are elliptical, 7×4–5µ.

The umbonate pileus and the nearly free, broad, gray gills will distinguish it. They are a late grower and are found under pine trees in November.

Tricholoma sulphureum. Bull.

Sulphury Tricholoma. Poisonous.

Figure 46.—Tricholoma sulphureum.

Sulphureum, sulphur; so called from the general color of the plant.