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.00025 inch broad. The pileus is one to three inches broad ; stem one to four 

 inches long and from four to eight lines thick. Peck's Report. 



This is quite common about Salem, Ohio ; on the old Lake Shore line in Wood 

 County near Bowling Green, Ohio ; and I have found it frequently near Chillicothe. 

 When cooked it has a pleasant flavor. It is always an attractive specimen. I find 

 it under beech trees in the woods, September to November. 



Tricholoma unif actum. Pk. 

 United Tricholoma. Edible. 



Unifactum means united or made into one, referring to the stems united in one 

 base root or stem. 



The pileus is fleshy but thin, convex ; often irregular, sometimes eccentric 

 from its mode of growth ; whitish, flesh whitish, taste mild. 



The gills are thin, narrow, close, rounded behind, slightly adnexed, sometimes 

 forked near the base, white. 



The stems are equal or thicker at the base, solid, fibrous, white, united at the 

 base in a large fleshy mass. 



Spores are white, subglobose, .00016 to .0002 of an inch broad. Peck. 



I found a beautiful specimen in Poke Hollow, in a beech woods with some 

 oak and chestnut. There was but one cluster growing from a large whitish fleshy 

 mass. There were fifteen caps growing from this fleshy mass. I could not identify 

 species until too late to photograph. 



Tricholoma albellum. Fr. 

 The Whitish Tricholoma. Edible. 



The pileus is two to three inches broad, becoming pale-white, passing into 

 gray when dry, fleshy, thick at the disk, thinner at the sides, conical then convex, 

 gibbous when expanded, when in vigor moist on the surface, spotted as with 

 scales, the thin margin naked, flesh soft, floccose, white, unchangeable. 



The gills are very much attenuated behind, not emarginate, becoming broad 

 in front ; very crowded, quite entire, white. 



The stem is one to two inches long, solid, fleshy-compact, ovate-bulbous 

 (conical to the middle, cylindrical above) , fibrillose-striate, white. Spores elliptical, 

 6-7x4/*. 



