PLUTEOLUS — PHOLTOTA. 209 



On rotten sticks, &c. 



Fragile. Distinguished from P. reticulatus, by the pilens 

 not having raised, anastomosing veins, and in the powdery 

 «tem. 



PHOLIOTA. Fries, (fig. 10, p. 3.) 



Pileus more or less fleshy ; gills adnate, with or without 

 a, decurrent tooth, or rounded behind and adnexed, tawny or 

 ferruginous at maturity, as are also the spores ; stem central, 

 furnished with a distinct interwoven rino;. 



Pholiota, Fries, Syst. Myc, i. p. 240; Cke., Hdbk., p. 140. 



The only g;enus in the Ochrosporae having the stem 

 furnished with a persistent, membranous, or interwoven 

 more or less spreading ring. In Flammula, a closely allied 

 genus, the ring, if present, is fibrillose and never forms more 

 than an indistinct silky zone or girdle round the stem. In 

 Cortinarius, which is also allied, the veil is fibrillose, forming 

 a,t most a zone round the' stem. 



A few species grow on the ground, principally in damp 

 places amongst moss, but .the majority grow on wood, and 

 are often densely caespitose. The genus includes many veiy 

 large and brilliantly coloured species. 



ANALYSIS OF TEE SPECIES. 



A. HuMiGENi. — Terrestrial ; rarely caespitose. 



* Eudermini. — Spores ferruginous. 



** Phaeoti. — Spores dusky ferruginous. 



B. Truncigeni. — Growing on wood ; subcaespitose. 



* Aegeritini. — Pileus naked, not scaly, but sometimes 

 cracked ; gills pallid, becoming rufescent or dusky. 



** Squarrosi. — Pileus scaly, not hygrophanous ; gills be 

 coming discoloured. 



■f Gills not purely ferriirjinous. 



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