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The stem is two to three inches long, at first stuffed, then hollow, nearly equal, squamose.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

P. 9-12 cm. soon plane, viscid, brownish-grey, warts greyish, soon disappearing; g. free, white; s. 10-12 cm. squamose up to the imperfect ring, and base bulbous, no free edge to volva; sp. 8-9 � 5-6.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George