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MINNESOTA MUSHROOMS 



rent by a tooth, rust-colored, narrow, crowded ; spores yellow to rust-colored, 

 ellipsoid. 7-8 X 4-5/u.. The name refers to the spreading scales. 



In dense clusters on stumps or tree trunks, rarely on the ground near stumps, 

 Julv to frost : the caps are good, both raw and cooked. 



Figure 37. Pholiota adiposa 



Pholiota subsquarrosa Scaly Pholiota 



Cap medium, 5-10 cm. wide, brownish rust-color, somewhat sticky, with close 

 darker scales, bell-shaped to convex; stem 6-8 cm. by 8-10 mm., yellowish rust- 

 color, with darker flattened scales below the zone-like ring, stuffed or hollow ; 



gills 



