CLASSIFICATION OF AGARICS 



nature of the scales mi the pileus, separate it from /'. muricata. it 

 is evident, from his description of the species i X. Y. State Bins. Ball. 

 Il'l'i thai Peck lias referred ;i ditferenl plant under this name, Bince 

 the spores of his specimens arc too large, and the gills are yellow 

 and close. From present advices the large-spored Bpecies is prob 

 ably /'. tuberculosa Fr. <>n the other hand. Haiti (Mushrooms, p. 

 264, I908)"and Moffatl (Chicago, Nat. Bist. Burv. Bull VII, p. 78 

 doubtless had our species. I cannol agree with those who would 

 combine P. muricata Pr. with this species, although the Bpores are 



very similar. 



294. Pholiota erinaceella Pk. 



N. V. State Mus. Rep. 28, 1876 (as P. deter aibilis) . 

 Illustration: Barper, Wis. Acid. Sci. Trans., VoL 17. PL 51. 



"PILEUS 1-2.5 cm. broad, hemispherical or convex, dry, densely 

 coated with small, erect, separable pyramidal or spine-like scales, 

 tawny-brown. FLESB thin. GILLS adnexed, broad, close, pallid 

 becoming cinnamon-brown. STEM 1-2.5 cm. long, 2 mm. thick. 

 equal, stuffed or hollow, densely squamulose below the slight an- 

 Indus, often curved, colored like the pileus. SPORES boat-shaped, 

 7. .V.i x l .") micr." 



On logs in woods. Frankfort. August. Rare. 



Reported by Harper. The description is adapted from Peck, 

 who says that the small, soft, crowded scales of the pileus which 

 can be easily rubbed off, constitute a prominenl character of the 

 species. Peck changed the original name in the 30th X. ST. State 

 .Mns. Rep. because it had been preoccupied. This species may be an 

 extreme form of P. curvipes, which differs in the innate floccositj of 

 the surface of the young pileus. Prom /'. muricata it seems to differ 

 mostly in its larger spores, pallid young gills, and the superficial 



scales on the cap. 



