Agaricacese 



Phoiiota. same cluster; varying also much thinner, scarcely ever curved-ascend- 

 ing. Odor heavy, stinking; sometimes, however, obsolete. Stevenson. 



Spores ellipsoid, 7-8x4-5^ K.; 4x5/4 W.G.S.; 8x4/4 Massee. 



On trunks of trees, on and near stumps, etc. Common. August to 

 December. 



West Virginia, 1881-1885, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. On rotten 

 wood and stumps. August to long after frost. Mcllvaine. 



Edible. Curtis. 



The American species, as I have repeatedly found it, is not so large as 

 given in the European description, and the habitat is more closely con- 

 fined to the trunks of standing trees and stumps not much decayed. It 

 is a showy species, to be seen from afar off, especially after the leaves 

 fall. Taste when young, raw, is sweet, mealy; when mature, like stale 

 lard. 



Cooked, the caps are of good substance and flavor. One of the very 

 best. 



P. squarrOSOi'tleS Pk. squarrosus, scurfy; eidos, form. PileilS 

 firm, convex, viscid when moist, at first densely covered by erect papil- 

 lose or subspinose tawny scales, which soon separate from each other, 

 revealing the whitish color and viscid character of the pileus. Lamella? 

 close, emarginate, at first whitish, then pallid or dull cinnamon color. 

 Stem equal, firm, stuffed, rough with thick squarrose scales, white 

 above the thick floccose ring, pallid or tawny below. Spores minute, 

 elliptical, 5x4/4. 



Densely cespitose, 3-6 in. high. Pileus 2-4 in. broad. Stem 3-5 

 lines thick. 



Dead trunks and old stumps of maple. Adirondack and Catskill 

 mountains. Autumn. 



This is evidently closely related to A. squarrosus, with which it has, 

 perhaps, been confused, but its different colors and viscid pileus appear 

 to warrant its separation. Peck, 3ist Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



Occurred in large clusters on sugar maples at Eagle's Mere in Octo- 

 ber, and on stumps at Mt. Gretna. It very closely resembles P. squar- 

 rosa. Its caps are of the very best. 



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