Lepiota erminea

General: Typical of pastures, meadows, and pine clearings, pileus conical to convex, whitish with a slightly ochraceous center, odor faint, taste slightly bitter.

Pileipellis: Cutis with abundant erect cylindrical terminal hyphae 120-360 x 6-14 µm, with rounded apices and faint brownish intracellular pigment.

Cheilocystidia: Scattered, inconspicuous, clavate to pyriform, hyaline, 25-37 x 9-12 µm.

Basidia: Clavate, 25-45 x 8-13 µm, with basal clamp connections, predominantly 4-spored.

Spores: Cylindrical to fusiform, with a pointed, curved apicular end, hyaline, smooth, moderately thick-walled, with granular contents, strongly dextrinoid in Melzer's reagent.