

KEY 



TO THE SPECIES OF THE GENUS PHOLIOTA FIGURED IN 

 »DANMARKS AGARICACEER« 



A. Hutnigenæ (Fr.). Growing on the ground (vide nos. 9 and 10). 



a. Velatæ. Cap with a powdery bloom or set with fibrinous 

 scales (from universal veil . 



a. Cap smooth, mealy; outside of ring granulate, radiately 

 sulcate , LP. Vahlii. 



b. Cap rugose-rivulose, sparsely set with fugacious, fibrinous 



or cobweb-like scales 2. P. caperata. 



|3. Nudæ. Cap smooth. 



a. Phæotæ (Fr.). Spores dark brown. 



1. Basidia 2-spored ; cap watery umber or fuscous . . 3. P. erebia. 



2. Basidia 4-spored; cap whitish or argillaceous. 



* Cap almost white, fleshy. Spores 12 — 13 x 7 1 /.,,«- *■ P dura. 

 t Cap pallid argillaceous, subhygrophanous. Spores 



9x5 ,« 5. P. præcox. 



b. Euderminæ (Fr.). Spores rusty. 



1. Basidia 4-spored. Ring radiately sulcate 6. P. togularis. 



2. Basidia 2-spored. Ring almost smooth 7. P. teneroides. 



(Large, fleshy mushroom with incomplete ring: 

 vide Phlegmacium clarieolor etc.) 



B. Truncigenae (Fr.). Growing on or around stumps or standing trees, 



on sticks or needles (or attached to Sphagnum). 



CX. Carnosæ. Cap flesh}', rather compact, not hygrophanous. 



a. Phæotæ. Spores dull brown. 



1. Cap set with cotton} 7 , white, deciduous scales. . 8. P. destruens. 



2. Cap smooth or slightly fibrillose-scaly towards the 



edge 9. P. radicosa. 



(Cap smooth, rootless: P. aegerita, pag. 9). 



b. Euderminæ. Spores rusty, 



1. Cap more or less viscose or smeary. 



* Spores small (6 x 3 l / s fl )\ stem with glutinous 



scales 10. P. adiposa. 



% Spores larger (8 — 9x5 < ( ); stem fibrinous, dry. 11. P. aiirivella. 



2. Cap dry. 



* Cap and stem squarrosely seal}'. 



f Spores 6 — 8 fl long. Cap with brown squarrose 



scales 12. P. squarrosa. 



ff Spores 4 — 5 y. 2 1 /., «. Cap with sulphur-yellow 



scales 13. P. flammans. 



£ Cap with adpressed fibrinous scales. Stem 



fibrinous 14. P. spectabilis. 



