Xerula megalospora (Clements in Clements & Pound) Redhead, Ginns, & Shoemaker. Cap 2-8cm across, broadly conical becoming flatter and slightly depressed around a central umbo, with a lined margin that is sometimes scalloped; pale smoky brown to sepia or buff or dark cream, sometimes slightly darker in the center and at the edge; sticky when wet, becoming dry and almost polished, radially lined to wrinkled. Gills broadly adnate to uncinate, distant to subdistant, 2-4 layers; white. Stem 60-130 x 2-IOmm, slightly enlarged toward the base, rooting, sometimes a little twisted; white, dry, smooth, often silky and finely lined; pseudoroot stains rusty. Flesh white, not staining. Odor mildly or strongly of geraniums or carrots. Taste not distinctive. Spores lemon-shaped to almond-shaped, finely roughened, nonamyloid, 18-23 x 10-14µ. Deposit white. Habitat singly or in groups on buried roots in deciduous woods. Found in eastern North America, south to Louisiana and west to Michigan and Nebraska. Season June-October. Edibility not known.