126 AGARIC ACE^E Pholiota 



ferruginous colour of Cortinarins. Spores sepia-brown, bright 

 yellowish-brown, or light red. (Fig. 33.) 



All the species except 596 and 597 grow on trees, stumps and 

 branches. 



Pholiota agrees in structure and habit with Armillaria and 

 Stropharia. 



Pholiota must not be confounded with Cortinarius, where all the 

 species are terrestrial, have an arachnoid veil and spores the colour 

 of iron-oxide. Species 569 597 



TRUNCIGEN/E. Mostly csespitose, growing on trunks and stumps. 



a. sEgeritincz. Pileus naked, not scaly, but here and there 



rimoso-rivulose. Gills pallid, then rufescent, becoming 

 fuscous. 569574 



b. Squamosce. Pileus scaly, not hygrophanous. Gills changing 



colour. 



Gills pallid, then fuscous, olivaceous, clay-coloured, not 



purely ferruginous. 575 579 



Gills yellow, then purely ferruginous or tawny. 580 586 



c. Hygrophana. Gills cinnamon, not at first light yellow. 



Hygrophanous. 587 595 



MUSCIGEN^E. Hygrophanous, resembling annulate Galerce ; mostly 

 growing on moss. 596, 597 



TRUNCIGEN^E. 

 a. sgeritin<z. 



569. P. radieosa Quel. (from the rooting stem) a b c. 



P. convexo-plane, viscid, pale tan-brownish, clouded darker. 

 St. spongy-solid, enlarged below and fusiform rooting, whitish- 

 tan. A. distant, fugitive. G. adnato-toothed or rounded. 



Solitary or gregarious, rarely caespitose. Taste pleasant or obsolete ; odour 



strong, like prussic-acid or sweetish, not unpleasant. Woods, about 



stumps, on wood ; frequent. Aug.-Oct. 4^ X loj x | in. P. some- 

 times 6 in. in diam. 



570. P. pudiea Gill, (from its modest colour ; pudicus, modest) a b c. 

 P. convex, moist, hygrophanous, rivuloso-wrinkled, tan; mid. 



sienna. St. solid, firm, rigid, paler than P. A. persistent. 

 G. adnato-rounded, colour as St. Flesh pallid white. 

 Single or caespitose. Odour strong, penetrating, disagreeable. Stumps, 

 elder, elm, rarely on lawns, downs. May-Nov. 2 X 2^ x in. Some- 

 times mistaken for 792. 



571. P. leoehroma Sacc. (from its lion-tawny colour ; Gr. lean, a lion, 



chroma, colour) a b. 



P. convex, then depressed ; mid. yellowish-white or pale sienna ; 

 marg. pale. St. solid, whitish above, brown below. A. per- 



