The gills are rounded behind and almost free, crowded, white.
The stem is about two inches long, hollow, solid at the base, smooth, cartilaginous, tough, rooting. The spores are 9–10×7–8µ.
It differs from T. album in having the odor of new meal strongly marked. It is found in open woods during September and October.
Tricholoma fumescens. Pk.
Smoky Tricholoma. Edible.
Figure 54.—Tricholoma fumescens.
Fumescens means growing smoky.
Pileus convex or expanded, dry, clothed with a very minute appressed tomentum, whitish.