Illustrations: WD 785.

Tephrocybe palustris (Peck) Donk

Cap: width 12-30 mm. Stem: width 3-5 mm; length 50-75 mm.

Description: [Plate 75].

Cap: bell-shaped then plane-convex, but finally depressed at centre, watery buff to greyish with flush of ochre or smoky grey, striate to centre when moist, but drying out non-striate and uniformly ochraceous buff.

Stem: thin, rather long, smooth, similarly coloured to the cap or paler, fragile and whitish woolly at the base.

Gills: dirty whitish, adnate with a tooth and not very crowded.

Flesh: thin, watery buff, drying out ochraceous and with a strong smell of new meal.

Spore-print: white.

Spores: medium sized, hyaline under the microscope, oval, not turning blue-grey in solutions of iodine, and 6-7 × 4-5 µm in size.