CLASSIFICATION OF AGARICS 



Illustrations : Bresadola, Fung. Trid., I. Plate 84. 



Cooke, ill.. PI. 600 (aa Pholiota comosa). 



Cooke ill.. Plate 366 (as Pholiota heteroclita) . 



Gillet, Champignons de Prance, No. 522. 



Gillet, Champignons de France, No. 52 i i ;i^ Pholiota i omosa > . 



Bard, Mushr s, Fig. 214, p. 264, 1908 (aa Pholiota heter- 

 oclita ). 



Harper, Wis. Acad. Sci. Trans., Vol. 17. PL 15 (aa P. comosa-). 



Harper, ibid, PL 16 and 17 (as P. heteroclita). 



Chicago Nat. Hist. Burv., Bnll. VII, Plate 9, 1909 (aa Pholi 

 ota comosa • . 



Plate LX of this Report. 



"PILEUS 6-15 cm. broad, fleshy, convex then expanded, Bometimes 

 gibbous or broadlv unbonate, subviscid. yellowish-white, disk lul 

 vous, elegantly covered with white, wooly, seceding scales, margin 

 at tirst involute ami fibrillose. GILLS crowded, rounded-adnexed 

 behind or adnate, decurrenl by a line, whitish at first then cinna 

 mon-umber. STEM 5-17 cm. long, 2-3 cm. thick, solid, attenuated 

 at apex, bulbous-radicate at base, white-squamose, glabrescenl in 

 age, concolor. FLESH white, fulvous-cinnamon at base of stem. 

 SPORES elliptical, or obovate, 8 L0 x 1-6 micr., yellow onder micro 

 scope. BASIDIA elavate, 20-25x6 micr. QDOB Btrong, Bomewhal 

 nauseous. TASTE rather agreeable." 



Solitary or subcaespitose. On trunks of poplar, birch and willow. 

 Autumn. Detroit. Frankfort. Infrequent. 



The description is that of Bresadola, who has shown the Identity 

 of the three species given by Fries i see above). It was collected 

 by I>r. Fischer near Detroit and one of his photographs waa pub 

 lighted by Hard as P. heteroclita. It seems to !><• rare in the state. 

 Harper recently reported it from Frankfort. 



290. Pholiota squarrosoides Pk. (Edibi 



N. V. State Mns. Rep. 31, 1879. 



Illustrations: Peck, X. V. State Mus. Rep. 54, Plate 7::. 

 Hani. Mushrooms, Plate 21, p. 12, L908. 

 Harper, Wis. Acad. s.i. Trans.. Vol. 17. PL 36 and ::7. 

 Conn, state Geol. & Nat. Hist. Sun. Bull. :'.. Plate 21. 



PILEUS 3-10 cm. broad, firm, Bubglobose when young, then convex, 



