Hymenophore becoming cyaneous at any point, without or within, where wounded; pileus conic to convex with conic umbo, at length expanded-umbonate or slightly depressed without umbo, closely gregarious or somewhat cespitose, reaching 12 cm. broad; surface slightly viscid at first with a few scattered, white, floccose scales, becoming dry, glabrous and shining, uniformly fulvous when young, remaining fulvous on the umbo but changing to ochroleucous and cremeous in older pilei; margin even, entire, not appendiculate; context white, without odor, taste at first strongly farinaceous, at length somewhat bitter and astringent; lamellae broad, adnate, becoming ventricose, unequal, medium close to subdistant, entire to undulate, watery-white to umbrious or purplish-brown; spores ellipsoid, smooth, opaque, dark purplish-brown under the microscope, about 13-15 X 8 t; cystidia none; stipe tapering upward, white or cremeous, fibrillose or slightly squamulose below the annulus, hollow, 5-7 X 1-2 cm.; veil ample, white, forming a superior, simple, fixed, persistent, conspicuous ring.