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The sporangia are subrotund or discoidal in form, dark brown, smooth, shining.

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

The pores are nearly plane, minute, subrotund, about two lines long; white, inclining to yellowish, the dissepiments thin, acute.

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

The variety papulatum is subrotund, sessile, papillose and pulverulent, the warts being nearly uniform in size.

From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas