CLASSIFICATION OF AGARH 



299. Pholiota lucifera (Lasch.) Br 



Fungi Trident ink I. L881. 



[llustrations : [bid, Plate 85. 



Ricken, Bl&tterpilze, PI. 54, Pig. l. 



PILEUS 3-5 cm. broad, convex then plane, al length umbonal 

 viscid, sulphur-yellow in Qavus, covered on disk i>\ tawny or i 

 dish-brown, appressed, fibrillose, thin Bcales, margiii even, incurved 

 and appendiculate. FLESH whitish, yellow under cuticle <;iu.s 

 adnate-subdecurrent, becoming Binuate, bright yellow, al lengtb 

 ferruginous, moderately narrow, crowded, edge crenulate from the 

 flask-shaped Bterile cells. STEM 2 5 cm. long, 5 7 nun. thick, fibre 

 equal or subequal, yellow, paler at apex, ferruginous al base, solid, 

 fibrillosely peronate. AJNNULUS narrow, fioccose, fugacious, 

 rusty-yellow. SPORES obovate, 7-8x 1-5.5 micr., Bmooth, ferrugi- 

 nous in mass. 



Gregarious. Od very rotten wood, in mixed w Is. Marquel 



August-September. Rare. 



This is a well-marked plant, found l>ut once, and apparently 



limited to our northern \\ Is. Our specimens had rather short 



stems which were solid, and in this respect diD'er from Bresadola'a 

 description. J', limonella Pk. appears to he similar, but differs in 

 its gills which nre whitish m tirst and adnexed. /'. adiposa has 

 broad gills and the scales are Large and often recurved. 



300. Pholiota luteofolia Pk. 



X. V. State Miis. Rep. l"7. L875. 



Illustration: Harper, Wis. Acad. Sci. Trans., Vol 17. PL L& 



PILEUS 2-5 cm. broad, compact, convex-expanded, dry, obtuse, 



scalu, il'jiini 011 disk with fasciculate-pointed pinkish t<> reddish- 

 brown scales, elsewhere a reolate-cracked and with ochraceous 

 brown, adpressed s.ah-. FLESH white. GILLS emargio 

 broad, subdistant, yellow then ferruginous, edge serrato STEM 

 short or long, •".•'. cm. Inn-, i s nun. thick, firm, Btuffed then hollow, 

 curved, fibrillose, Bubequal, yellowish, floccose-pruinose above the 

 slight, .-van. -scent ANNl'ld'S. SPORES elliptical, 7-8x5 micr., 

 Bmooth, ferruginous in mass. CYSTIDIA none. 



