CLASSIFICATION' OF AGARICS 287 



287. Pholiota howeana Pk. 

 N. V. State .Miis. Rep. 26, L874. 



PILELS 1. .")."» cm. broad, convex expanded, fragile, Bubnmbonate, 

 dry, glabrous, even, pale ochraceous, anicolor or center darker. 

 FLESH white. GILLS adnate, with ;i tooth, narrow, close, subven- 

 tricose, white ;<i firsl then rusty-brown, edge entire and concolor. 

 STEM :*. 7 cm. long, L.5 I mm. thick, sU nd* r, equal, rather rigid, 

 corticate, glabrous, even, stuffed with white pith, whitish to pale 

 ochraceous. A.NNULTJS apical, thin, membranous, and easily rub- 

 bed oil'. SPORES obsurcly 5-angled or sub-regular, truncate :it 

 one end. pointed .it the other, 9-10.5x5-5.5 micr., fuscous-brown. 

 CTSTIDIA Qone or very lew. ODOB and TASTE mild. 



(Dried: Pilous and stem pale-tan, gills rusty-brown.) 



Gregarious. In grassy fields. Ann Arbor. June. Enfrequent. 



Our collections average smaller than Peck's description. The 

 slight angularity <>f the spores is obscure bul easily made out. In 

 shape it looks like n small /'. prdecox inn the colors differ and the 

 stem lias a different texture. The pileus is sometimes slightly pitted- 

 lacunose on the margin. In size and appearance it resembles 

 Naucoria semiorbicularis, but with an annulus; it also approaches 

 Peck's /'. tenmophylla; but that species has very broad gills ami 

 the spores are larger. 



288. Pholiota aggericola Pk. 



N. V. State Mus. Rep. 24, 1872. 



N. Y. State Mus. Rep. 30, L878 (as Pholiota indecent Pk.). 



N. Y. State Mus. Bull. 28, L899 (as Pholiota aggerata Pk.). 



Illustrations: Marshall. .Mushroom Book, p. "::. 

 (Compare Cooke's Ml.. Plate 358 of /'. erebia.) 

 Harper, Wis. Acad. Sci. Trans., Vol 17. PI. 30 (as /'. erebia 

 Ft.). 



PILEUS Lot cm. broad, convex then plane and at length with 

 recurved margin, viscid, dark fuscous amber, fading i>» cinnamon, 

 glabrous, rmi, rivulo8e <>r rugose, margin obscurely striatulate. 

 GILLS adnate or arcuate subdecurrent, close to Bubdistant, rather 

 broad behind ami subtmncate, pallid at first, then grayish, finally 

 rusty-brown. STEM 3-6 em. long, I 7 mm. thick, equal or Bubequal, 



