98 MUSHEOOMS. 



Yellow or Orange. 



and then darker. We were driving through a 

 thick woods when we saw the bright yellow 

 cap of this mushroom peering among the 

 bushes. There was no apparent ring and few 

 scales except on the margin. It was irregularly 

 shaped, fleshy and thick. It was not a typical 

 specimen, and a beginner would have found it 

 difficult to name. The then recent hard rains 

 had washed nearly all the scales from the cap, 

 and the ring was hardly to be seen. It grew 

 on the trunk of a tree in the month of Sep- 

 tember. Not edible. 



PH0LI0TA SPECTABILIS = showy. 

 The Showy Pholiota. 



This Pholiota was found much later in the 

 season. Cap is from 2 to 5 inches broad, a 

 golden yellow, then growing paler, fleshy, torn 

 into squamules, dry, flesh thick, hard, sulphur 

 yellow. Stem about 3 inches long and 1 inch 

 thick, solid, hard, swollen in the middle, and 

 extending into a spindle-shaped root. It is 

 sometimes smooth and shining and sometimes 

 scaly, sulphur yellow color and mealy above the 

 ring. Gills adnate, crowded, narrow, at first 

 pure yellow and afterward ironrust color. Gills 



