Cortinarius huronensis var. olivaceus Ammirati & Smith subgenus Dermocybe Cap 2-4cm across, broadly conical, then flat with a low umbo; buffy olive in color; fibrillose. Gills adnexed; olive-green when young, then more brownish yellow. Stem 60-120 x 6-l0mm, tall, slender, slightly thicker near the base; pallid olive to ochre; fibrillose, the base covered in whitish tomentum, which clings to the sphagnum moss. Flesh yellowish or olivaceous brown in the stem base. Odor not distinctive. Taste radish-like. Spores ovate, inequilateral, roughened, rather variable, 8.7-11(12.8) x 5-6(6.5)µ, quotient 1.8. Deposit rusty brown. Habitat in sphagnum bogs. Found in New York and Michigan and probably many other areas if sphagnum present. Season August-November. Not edible. Comment As the bogs dry out a little in late summer, this mushroom is sometimes found in profusion.