268 MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



The gills are close, emarginate, at first whitish, then pallid or dull cinnamon 

 color. 



The stem is equal, firm, stuffed, rough, with thick squarrose scales, white 

 above the thick floccose annulus, pallid or tawny below. The spores are minute, 

 elliptical, .0002 inch long, .00015 inch broad. 



They grow in tufts on dead trunks and old stumps, especially of the sugar 

 maple. They closely resemble P. squarrosa. Found late in the fajl. Its favorite 

 haunt is the inside of a stump or within the protection of a log. 



Pholiota squarrosa. Mull. 

 The Scaly Pholiota. Edible. 



Squarrosa means scaly. The pileus is three to four inches broad, fleshy. 

 bell-shaped, convex, then expanded; obtusely umbonate, tawny-yellow, clothed 

 with rich brown scales ; flesh yellow near the surface. 



The gills are attached to the stem, with a decurrent tooth, at first yellowish, 

 then of a pale olive, changing to rusty-brown in color, crowded, and narrow. 

 The spores are elliptical, 8x4/1. 



The stem is three to six inches high, saffron yellow, stuffed, clothed with 

 small fibers, scaly like the pileus, attenuated at the base from the manner of its 

 growth. The ring is close to the apex, downy, rich brown, inclining to orange 

 in color. 



This is quite a common and showy mushroom. It is found on rotten wood, 

 on or near stumps, growing out from a root underground, and is often found 

 at the foot of trees. Only the caps of the young specimens should be eaten. It 

 is found from August to late frost. 



hiocybc. J'r. 



Inocybe is from two Greek words meaning fiber and head: so called from 

 the fibrillose veil, concrete with the cuticle of the pileus. often free at the margin, in 

 the form of a cortina. The gills are somewhat sinuate, though they are sometimes 

 adnate, and in two species are decurrent : changing color but not powdered with 

 cinnamon. Spores are often rough but in other specimens are even, more or less 

 brownish rust-color. Stevenson. 



