I LASSIFIC'ATION OF AGARICS 



emarginate, medii lose, whitish then dingy pale ferruginous, edge 



uneven or crisped. STEM stout, 7 I u cm. long, 10-20 nun. thick, 

 Bubcylindrical, firm, Bolid, glabrous, dingy white, furnished mm 

 the middh with </ reflexed, persistant, whitish, membranous <m 

 Huh-*. SPORES 12-14x7-9 micr., inequilateral, elliptical, tuber 

 culate, yellowish. < >l>< >i; and taste mild. 



Gregarious or scattered. On the ground in woods, especially of 

 conifers. Ann Arbor, Bay View, .M arquette, etc. August-Septem 

 ber. Frequent locally. 



This species baa been separated rrom the Pholiotas i»\ K 

 who invented the genus Rozites for ii. li i> quite distinct from the 

 other species by its peculiar covering when young, lis stout sti 

 distinct annulus, large size and terrestrial habit make ii easilj 

 recognizable. 



285. Pholiota johnsoniana i I'k. i At k. (Edible) 



N. V. Stale Cab. Rep. 23, 1872 (as Psalliota johnsoniana). 



N. Y. State Miis. Rep. II, isss ias Stropharia johnsoniana). 



Illustration: Atkinson, Mushrooms, Plate it. p. 145, L900. 



PILEUS 4-10 cm. broad, convex then plane ami subturbinate, 

 glabrous, ochre-yellowish, often shading to whitish on margin 

 which is thin and sometimes finely striate. FLESH quite thick on 

 disk, white, soft. (JILLS udne.rcd or almost free, rounded behind, 

 thin, crowded, rather narrow, grayish-white at first, then rustj 

 brown, at length ascending toward front. STEM 5-10 cm. long 

 (or more), 6-10 nun. thick, equal or slightly thickened at base, folid, 

 glabrous, innately fibrillose, rarely floccose-torn, whitish. SPORES 

 elliptical-oval, 5-6x3-4 micr., smooth, brown with a slight rusty 

 tinge. CYSTIDLA none. l>ut scattered over the hymen ium 

 clusters of stellate crystals. ANNULUS thick, swollen, with obtuse 

 edge 



(Dried: Pileus yellowish-alutaceous ; ^ r ills fuscous-umber; stem 

 buff). 



Gregarious. <»n leaf-mould in rich woods; also said to occur 

 in pastures. Ann Arbor. September. Rare. 



As Atkinson points out, the plant is quite readilj distinguished 

 by its subturbinate (i. e. top-shaped) pileus and the thick annulus. 

 Variations occur with erect tawny squammules on the center of the 

 pileus, or with its surface innately fioccose or fibrillose. Tl 

 of the stem is sometimes connected with the soil by whit< 



