62 AGARICINI. 



Gills, adnexed, rounded near the stem, tawny. 

 Stem, four inches high, one inch or more thick ; solid, 

 tough, and spongy, thickened towards the base, even bulbous. 

 Ring, rather thick near the apex. 



Thi« beautiful species is scarce, for I only met with it in a few localities. 

 Koch's island, near Trexlertown. Grows on rotten oak stumps. 



P. squarrosoides. Pk. 



Pileus, firm, convex, viscid when moist, at first densely 

 cov^ered by erect papillose or subspinose tawny scales, which 

 soon separate from each other, revealing the whitish color and 

 viscid character of the pileus. 



Gills, 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 annulus, pallid or tawny 

 below. 



Spores, minute, elliptical, .0002 inch long, .00015 inch 

 broad. 



Densely csespitose, three to six inches high, pileus two to 

 four inches broad, stem three to five lines thick. 



Named from the dense squarrose scales covering the pileus and stipe. 

 It is a late customer ; does not appear until late in the season. Grows 

 in tufts inside of rotten stumps and logs It is viscid when moist, 

 shining when dry. Not edible. 



Squarrosoides means like squarrosus, because it is almost similar to the 

 squarrosus, Muell., of Europe. 



P. squarrosus. Miill. Scaly Pholiota. 



Pileus, fleshy, campanulate, expanded, covered with squar- 

 rose scales, tawny yellow. 



Gills, yellowish, changing to brown, adnate or rounded 

 near the stem. 



