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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



Pholiota agerita. Fr, 



./Egerita is the Greek name for the black poplar; so called bcause it grows 

 on decayed poplar logs. The pileus is fleshy, convex, then plane, more or less 

 checked or rivulose, wrinkled, tawny, edge of the cap rather pale. 



The gills are adnate. with a decurrent tooth, rather close, pallid, then growing 

 darker. 



The stem is stuffed, equal, silky-white, ring superior, fibrillose, tumid. 

 Spores 10x5^. 



Found in October and November, in the woods wherever there are decayed 

 poplar logs. 



FicurE 216. Pholiota squarrosoides. Two-thirds natural size. Cans yellow or yellowish. 



Pholiota squarrosoides. Pk, 

 I. ikk Tin: Scaly Pholiota. Edible. 



Squarrosoides means like Squarrosa. The pileus is quite firm, convex, viscid. 

 especially when moist; at first densely covered with erect papillose or subspinose 

 tawny scales, which soon separate from each other, revealing the whitish or yellow- 

 ish color of the cap and its viscid character. 



