tomentum

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The stem is short, solid or with a slight cavity, often slightly thickened at the top, pruinose, gray, with a white, mycelioid tomentum at the base.

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

It is dwarf, spreading, little more than a foot high, with ovate leaves with brownish tomentum on the under surface.

From Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens by Cook, Ernest Thomas

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 Atkinson, George Francis

Differs from C. Friesii in being at first covered with brown tomentum which breaks up into flecks.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George