
Brown star-footed Amanita - Amanita brunnescens
This mushroom was had a cream-colored cap with scattered warts. The gills were free, white, and crowded. The stem had a skirt-like ring and ended in basal bulb that was "chiseled" or split vertically in one or more places.
Habitat: Mixed forest with mostly oak and eastern hemlock

"Amanita brunnescens" is a native North American mushroom of the large genus "Amanita". Originally presumed to be the highly toxic "Amanita phalloides" by renowned American mycologist Charles Horton Peck, it was described and named by George F. Atkinson of Cornell University. He named it after the fact that it bruised brown.