Minnesota Plant Diseases. 



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with, this parasite is probably not very destructive to timbers 

 in this state. It has been observed on living shade trees. 



Fie. 129. Fruiting bodies of the fatty I'holiota (Pholiota adiposa), in a wound of an oak 



tree trunk. Original. 



The scurfy Pholiota rot (Plwliota squarrosa Miill.}. This is 

 a close relative of the fatty Pholiota and forms fruiting bodies 

 which resemble those of the latter. They are not so viscid in 

 rainy weather and are persistently scurfy. It occurs on logs, 



