Peck CH. 1913. Report of the State Botanist 1912. Bulletin of the New York State Museum 167: 31-32.

Tricholoma latum Pk.

Plate IX, figures 5-8

Pileus fleshy, firm but flexible, broadly convex or nearly plane, moist, glabrous, white or whitish, flesh white, taste disagreeable; lamellae plane or slightly arcuate in mass, narrow, close, rounded behind, adnexed, white or whitish, becoming dingy or tinged with reddish brown when old; stem short, nearly equal, solid or stuffed, slightly pruinose at the top, more or less white tomentose at the base, colored like the pileus; spores oblong or subfusiform, 10-12 x 3.5-4 microns.

Pileus 5-10 cm broad; stem 2.5-5 cm long 1.5 -2 cm thick. Gregarious. Woods, Vaughns. September. S. H. Burnham.

Pileus carneus, firmus, flexuosus, late convexus vel subplanus, humidus, glaber, albus albidusve, carne albus, sapor ungratus ; lamellae planae vel leviter arcuatae; confertae, angustae, adnexae, albae albidaeve, in senectute sordidae; stipes brevis, subaequalis, solidus vel farctus, ad apicem subpruinosus, basi albotomentosus, pileo similis coloratus; sporae oblongae vel subfusiformes, 10-12 x 3.5-4 microns.