tomentum
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The pileus is convex, expanded, sometimes somewhat depressed, lateral, irregular, or sometimes with the stem nearly in the center, brownish or blackish, dry, sometimes with a brownish or blackish tomentum on the surface.
From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by George Francis Atkinson
The plants are small, obconic, truncate, broadly open; externally ferruginous, with a hairy tomentum, internally lead-color, smooth, striated.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
P. thin campan. then exp. tomentose, squamulose; g. free, grey then blackish; s. narrowed upwards, glabrous above, downy below, base with white tomentum.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
The stem is solid, tough and elastic, curved or straight, covered with a dense black tomentum, sometimes with violet shades.
From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by George Francis Atkinson
It is readily recognized by the red fibrillose tomentum which covers the entire plant when young.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
