304 THE AGARICACEAE OF MICHIGAN 



** Gills at first yellow, becoming ferruginous. 



295. Pholiota muricata Fr. 



Syst. Myc, 1821. 



Illustrations: Harper, Wis. Acad. Sci. Trans., Vol. IT, PL 52 

 and 53. 



PILEUS 2-4 cm. broad, convex or nearly plane, dry, obtuse or 

 depressed, covered with dense, fasciculate or granular, tawny-yel- 

 low, pointed scales, ferruginous on disk, not striate, margin when 

 young often adorned by remnants of the veil. FLESH thin. GILLS 

 adnate, seceding, moderately broad and close, yellow at first then 

 ferruginous-stained, edge concolor and minutely fimbriate from 

 the sterile cells. STEM 2-4 cm. long, 3-4 mm. thick, curved, stuffed 

 then hollow, tawny, floccose-fibrillose or granular scaly up to the 

 fugacious ANNULUS. SPOKES short elliptical, 6-7x3-4 micr., 

 smooth, pale ferruginous-brown. CYSTIDIA none. 



Solitary or gregarious. On decaying logs, etc. Ann Arbor, Bay 

 View. August-September. Infrequent. 



Our plants fit well the description of Fries, except that the gills 

 are not adnexed. They approach P. curvipes, but seem to me suffi- 

 ciently differentiated by the pointed, fasciculate or granular scales 

 of the cap, which are sometimes also found on the stem, and by 

 the color of the gills which is yellow at first. P. erinaceela Pk. is 

 also close, but the scales on the cap are superficial. 



296. Pholiota spectabilis Fr. 



Epicrisis, 1836-38. 



Illustrations: Harper, Wis. Acad. Sci. Trans., Vol. 17, PL 44. 

 Fries, Icones, Plate 102. 



Ricken, Bliitterpilze, PL 55, Fig. 1, (As Pholiota aurea). 

 Cooke, 111., Plate 352. 

 Gillet, Champignons de France, No. 529. 

 Plate LXI of this Report. 



PILEUS 4-10 cm. broad, convex, then campanulate-expanded, 

 firm, sometimes broadly umbonate, tawny-orange, dry, surface 

 glabrous at first, then broken into minute fibrillose scales, margin 

 even and sometimes wavy. FLESH thick, compact, yellowish, thin 



