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and very short; sterile cells on edge of gills. ODOR none, TASTE 

 mild. 



Solitary or caespitose. On decaying logs, etc., and from wounds 

 on trunks of living sugar maple and white ash. Throughout the 

 State. June-October. Frequent, especially in the autumn. Edible. 



Easily recognized by its bright color and viscid pileus. In wet 

 weather the pileus becomes glutinous. The floccose annulus termi- 

 nates the scaly part of the stem above, and is often lacking. The 

 stem of our plant is always solid, and Fries (Hymen. Europ.) must 

 have erroneously written "farcto," as other European authors refer 

 to it also as solid. Massee and Ricken give spore-measurements 

 which are too small for the American plants. Occasional specimens 

 become larger than the size of the plant given above. The gelatin- 

 ous layer of the cap should be peeled before cooking. 



298. Pholiota flammans Fr. 



Syst. Myc, 1821. 



Illustrations: Fries, Icones, PI. 101. 

 Cooke, 111., PL 368. 

 Michael, Fiihrer f. Pilzfreunde, Vol. II, No. 75 (as Pholiota 



flammula A. & S.). 

 Ricken, Bliitterpilze, PL 55, Fig. 5. 

 Harper, Wis. Acad. Sci. Trans., Vol. 17, PL 41 C. 



'•PILEUS 4-7 cm. broad, convex-expanded to plane, entirely dry, 

 subnmbonate, fiery-yellow to almost orange-red, clothed by super- 

 ficial, sulphur-yellow, squarrose-fibrillose scales. FLESH bright 

 yellow, becoming reddish-brownish. GILLS emarginate-adnexed, 

 very narrow, thin, crowded, bright yellow, becoming ferruginous. 

 STEM 5-7 cm. long, 5-10 mm. thick, equal, mostly curved, stuffed 

 then hollow, bright yellow, dry, squarrose-scaly, up to the torn, some- 

 what membranous annulus. SPORES minute, cylindrical-elliptical, 

 4x2 niicr. ODOR almost like radish." 



On decaying stumps and logs, probably only on coniferous wood. 

 Northern Michigan. September. 



Known by the paler, sulphur-yellow scales on a more deeply color- 

 ed background, and by the very small spores and squarrose-scaly 

 cap and stem. It is usually caespitose. Harper reports it from 

 Neebish Island. The description is adapted from Ricken. 



