The Smoky Tricholoma. Edible.
Fumidellum—smoky, because of the clay-colored caps clouded with brown.
The pileus is one to two inches broad, convex, then expanded, subumbonate, bare, moist, dingy-white or clay-color clouded with brown, the disk or umbo generally smoky brown.
The gills are crowded, subventricose, whitish.
The stem is one and a half to two and a half inches long, equal, bare, solid whitish. The spores minute, subglobose, 4–5×4µ. Peck, 44 Rep.
The specimens I found grew in a mixed woods in the leaf-mold. They are found only occasionally in our woods in September and October.
Tricholoma leucocephalum. Fr.
The White-capped Tricholoma. Edible.
Leucocephalum is from two Greek words meaning white and head, referring to the white caps.
The pileus is one and a half to two inches across, convex, then plane; even, moist, smooth when the silky veil is gone, water-soaked after a rain; flesh thin, tough, smell mealy, taste mild and pleasant.