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Gills subelliptical to subventricose behind, broadly emarginate, adnexed.

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

P. campan. exp. umb. silky fibrillose, whitish brown, disc darker, dry; g. crowded, near to stem, subventricose; s. rather shining, whitish, base thickened; volva mostly adherent, laciniate, brownish.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

Shell subventricose; uniform olive; apex of the spire acute; aperture and spire of equal length; umbilicus closed.

From Zoological Illustrations, Volume II or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by Swainson, William