6o AGARICINI. 



The following genera have species growing in the Lehigh 

 Valley : 



Pholiota — with gills adnate and stem annulate. 



Inocybe — with gills more or less sinuate and a scaly pileus. 



Hebeloma — with gills more or less sinuate and a smooth 



pileus. 

 Flammula — gills sharply adnate or decurrent. 

 Naucoria — stipe cartilaginous, gills adnate. 

 Galera — pileus campanulate, stipe cartilaginous. 



Genus XVI. PHOI^IOTA. 



Partial veil in the form of a ring, analogous to Armillaria in 

 the white-spored series. They grow mostly on dead trunks of 

 trees. Spores ferruginous or fuscous-ferruginous. 



Stem confluent and homogeneous, with the hymenophore 

 furnished with an annulus. 



P. precox. Pers. Early Pholiota. 



Pileus, fleshy, convex, obtuse, margin even, pale buff, 

 watery near the gills, which is a character ; when dry it 

 assumes a dirty w^hite color. 



Gills, adnate, slightly sinuate, moderately broad, not ven- 

 tricose ; edge lighter than the other part, w^hich gradually 

 becomes brownish. 



Stem, solid, which becomes hollow^ with age, juicy, white. 



Ring", near the top of stem, deflexed. 



Spores, oval, .00031 X .0003. 



The early PhoHota is one of our first fleshy fungi in early Spring. In 

 favorable weather it makes its appearance about the middle of May. 

 Grain fields and grassy lawns are full of them. Never met with them 

 in our woods. 



