This is a large and beautiful plant in the woods, and easily identified because of its floccose nature and the large bulb at the base of the stem.
The gills are close, reaching the stem, and sometimes forming decurrent lines upon it, floccose crenulate on the edge, the short ones truncate at the inner extremity, white.
The stem is two to three inches long, tapering upward, loosely stuffed, finally hollow, often floccose at the base.
The plants are usually hygrophanous, but when dry, floccose or slightly silky.
Stem= somewhat hollow, nearly equal or slightly thickened or bulbous at the base, soft, pale-yellow variegated with red or purplish floccose scales.
Stem thread-like, flaccid, base not dilated or floccose but appearing to enter the matrix abruptly.
It is placed among the Subtomentosi in Sylloge, but from these it recedes by its floccose wart-like scales.
Universal veil viscid, with occasionally a floccose partial one, which is annular or marginal.
Ring= close to the top, lax, silky, splitting up into floccose fragments.
In Caldesia, bearing spines, the texture isfloccose not fleshy.
The pileus is clothed with a fibrillose tomentum which becomes more or less united into floccosetufts or scales.
Cuticle of the pileus never moist or viscid; torn into downy or floccose scales.
Stem short, not rooting, often with a floccose or downy, tubercular base.
Pileus= hemispherical or convex, dry, covered with thick floccose projecting blackish or blackish-brown scales, the margin somewhat appendiculate with scales and fragments of the veil.
Pileus= at first convex or conical, bell-shaped then expanded, at first more or less floccose or mealy, then smooth white or yellowish.
It has a big, ragged, floccose ring, and the pithy stem is inclined to be hollow.
Stem short, not rooting, entering matrix abruptly, often with a small floccose tubercle at base.
Pileus and stem floccose or fibrillose at first from the universal veil.
The stem is hollow, and covered with numerous small yellow floccose scales which point upward and are formed by the tearing away of the edges of the gills, which are loosely united with the surface of the stem in the young stage.
As the veil is split off from the surface of the stem, the latter is torn into numerous floccose scales, as shown in Fig.
These floccose scales are formed as a result of the separation of the annulus from the outer layer of the stem.
The stem is white, smooth, or floccose scaly where the veil has been ripped off from it.
Sometimes the pileus is covered with numerous white, delicate floccose scales, which give it a beautiful appearance, as in Fig.
Sometimes the floccose matter would cling together more or less, and portions of it remained as patches on the lower part of the stem, while depauperate forms of A.
Frequently parts of the cap, the entire stem and the gills are covered with a white, crumbly, floccose substance of a mealy consistency which often sticks to the hands or other objects.
The stem is also adorned with softfloccose scales.
This is a medium or small sized plant with a floccose pileus adorned with small, acute, erect scales, and has a loose, hairy or wooly veil which is often torn irregularly.
Stem 2 inches by 2 lines, at first floccose stuffed.
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