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Powder-cap Amanita
Scientific Name: Amanita farinosa
Family Name: Amanitaceae
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Description: Powdery gray to brownish-gray mushroom with radially lined to furrowed cap margin and free gills. Cap: 1 - 3 inches (2.5-7.5 cm) wide; bell-shaped, becoming convex to flat; margin strongly radially lined to pleated; pale gray to brownish-gray, covered with dense gray powder. Gills; free, close, broad, white. Stalk: 1 - 3 inches (2.5-7.5 cm) long, 1/8 - 3/8 inch (0.3-1 cm) thick, with slight basal bulb; grayish to dirty white, powdery. Veil: universal veil grayish, leaving mealy, powdery covering on cap and stalk bulb. No partial veil. Spores: 6.3-9.4 X 4.5-8 microns; round to elliptical; smooth, colorless, nonamyloid. Spore print white. Season: June-November. Habitat: On the ground, under coniferous and deciduous trees; also in grassy wood borders. Range: Throughout North America. Comments: This may not readily be recognized as an Amanita because it has no ring or partial veil, and the universal veil disintegrates into the powdery covering, leaving no cuplike structure. [Lincoff, Gary H., The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981]