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colors, softer substance and specially by its smaller spores. These 

 are more brown than the spores of the (.arly plioliota, Pholiota 

 ])raecox (Pers.) Fr., and this makes it doubtful whether the 

 species would not better be placed in the genus Stropharia. 



The cap is 1-2 inches broad and convex or nearly flat on the 

 upper surface which is smooth and nearly white or sometimes 

 yellow in the center or wholly ochraceous buff. The gills arc 

 rather narrow and closely placed side by side. When young they 

 are whitish but with advancing age they become dark rusty brown. 

 The stem is 1-2 inches long and 2-4 lines thick. It is white and 

 adorned near the top by a thick cottony white collar which is 

 sometimes torn or ragged and sometimes disappears as the plant 

 grows old. It grows in rocky uncultivated places and may be 

 found in August and September. It was discovered in Massa- 

 chusetts but has been found near Syracuse in this State. Its 

 scarcity detracts somewhat from its importance as an edible species. 



Phylloporus rhodoxanthus (Schw.) Bres. 



YELLOW RED PHYLLOPORUS 



PLATE 116, FIG. &-II 



Pileus fleshy, compact, convex or pulvinate, sometimes becoming 

 plane or depressed in the center when old, minutely flocculose or 

 subtomentose, dry, occasionally rimose, reddish, yellowish red, 

 brownish red or tawny brown, flesh white or whitish ; lamellae 

 moderately broad, subdistant, adnate or decurrent, distinct or 

 slightly anastomosing near the stem, golden yellow, the inter- 

 spaces somewhat venose; stem straight or flexuous, equal or nar- 

 rowed toward the base, solid or stufifed, reddish or red above and 

 yellow below ; spores oblong or subfusiform, .0004-0005 of an 

 inch long, .00016-.0002 broad. 



The yellow red phylloporus is variable in the color of the cap 

 and stem and in the character of the gills. It has been referred 

 by mycologists to various genera and described under various 

 names. Agaric us rhodoxanthus, Agaric us pel- 

 letieri, Gomphidius rhodoxanthus, Clitocybe 

 pelletieri. Flam mu la tammii, Flammula para- 

 doxa, Paxillus tammii and Paxillus rhodoxan- 

 thus have all been applied to one or another form of this 

 protean species. Because it does not agree well with the char- 

 acters of any of the genera mentioned a new genus was instituted 



