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P. 2.5-9 cm. exp. subumb. glabrous, deep cinnamon then pale; g. adnato-decur. crowded; s. 3-9 cm. rigid, squarrosely scaly up to ring, base dark rusty; sp. 9-11 � 5-6.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. convex-umb. wood-yellow, with broad scattered adpressed scales; g. sinuate, yellow then umber; s. cylindrical, thick, squarrosely scaly, yellowish; sp. 8-11 � 4-6. heteroclita, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. 4-9 cm. equal, obtuse, even, glabrous, spotted, pale greyish tan; g. free, ventricose; s. 8-14 cm. solid, rooting, mealy above, squarrosely scaly below ring; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

The pileus is fleshy, convex, then plane, quite squarrosely scaly, somewhat dark or grayish-brown.

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

P. 2-4 cm. campan. obtuse, squarrose with rigid recurved scales, brown; g. white then rusty; s. 4-5 cm. solid, rigid, base blue, squarrosely scaly everywhere, fuscous; sp. 10-11 � 5.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George