Lepiota friesii
Lépiote à écailles aiguës Spitzschuppiger Schirmpilz Lepiota aspera Pers. Syn. Cystoplepiota aspera (Pers.) Bon syn. Lepiota friesii (Lasch) Quél. syn. L. acutesquamosa var. furcata Kühn. Cap 5–10cm across, ovoid at first then obtusely conical or bell-shaped, dark brown at the centre elsewhere the surface breaking up into dark brown scales. Stem 30–50 x 5–10mm, pallid often with a few dark brown scales at the extreme base; ring whitish, cottony, often adhering to the cap margin. Flesh white. Gills free, crowded and forked near the stem, white. Cheilocystidia thin-walled, subglobose, hyaline, 8–23m in diameter. Spore print white. Spores narrowly fusoid, dextrinoid, 6–8 x 3–4um. Tips of the scales on the cap surface formed of brownish spherical cells. Habitat in deciduous woods. Season autumn. Occasional. Edibility unknown -avoid. A confused species, Europe and almost certainly America .