Excerpt from Report of the State Botanist on Edible Fungi of New York, 1895-99
When the young plant first appears above the surface Of the ground, the cap is oval or somewhat egg-shaped, but it soon becomes more expanded and finally nearly flat. In wet weather the margin sometimes curves upward, making the cap appear concave above or centrally depressed. The warts have a soft or somewhat woolly texture and are easily separable from the cap. In the European plant they are represented as sometimes entirely absent. In the American plant-they are quite persistent on the center Of the cap, though they sometimes disappear from the thin plicate striate mar gin. They are represented in the figure Of the species given by Fries in his cones as paler than the cap, but in our plant they are as dark as the cap or sometimes even darker. The cap is grayish brown or mouse color, some times becoming paler or drab on the margin.
The gills are white or whitish, free from the stem and broader as they approach the margin of the cap. The intervening Short ones are truncated at the inner extremity.
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