BOZITES. PHOLIOTA 111 



Spores ferruginous, rough; general veil persistent. 



Rozites Karst. 

 (E. Roze, a French mycologist.) 



Pileus fleshy, regular, white pruinose with the thin general veil. 

 Stem central, fleshy. Ring membranaceous. Gills adnate. Spores 

 ferruginous, pip-shaped, rough, with an apical germ-pore. Growing 

 on the ground. 



262. R. caperatus (Pers.) Karst. (= Pholiota caperata (Pers.) Fr.) 

 Holland, Champ, t. 59, no. 132, as Pholiota caperata. 



Caperatus, wrinkled. 



P. 413 cm., more or less intensely yellow, campanulate, then ex- 

 panded, obtuse, viscid only when moist and not truly so, incrusted 

 with the fioccose-mealy universal veil, which is crowded on the even 

 disc, and squamulose and fugacious towards the thin, lacunoso-wrinkled, 

 sulcate, splitting margin. St. 8-17 x 2-5-3-5 cm., white, becoming 

 tinged with yellow, stout, fibrillose, striate, equal, base often tuberous, 

 and the universal veil often cohering in the form of a volva, squamulose 

 above the ring. Ring white, becoming yellowish, membranaceous, 

 striate, distant, often oblique and torn. Gills clay-cinnamon, adnate, 

 crowded, thin, denticulate. Flesh whitish, becoming yellowish. Spores 

 ferruginous, pip-shaped, 11-12 x 8/x, rough, 1-guttulate. Cystidia 

 "on edge of gill clavate, 45-50 x 8-10//," Rick. Smell and taste 

 pleasant. Edible. Woods. Aug. Dec. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



Spores ochraceous, or ferruginous, generally smooth; general veil 

 none, or fugacious. 



Pholiota Fr. 



(</>oXt5, a scale; 0^9, the ear.) 



Pileus fleshy, regular. Stem central. Ring membranaceous, per- 

 sistent, or fugacious, superior, or inferior. Gills adnate, or decurrent 

 by a tooth. Spores ochraceous, or ferruginous, rarely fuscous, ellip- 

 tical, oval, obovate, subreniform or oblong elliptical, generally smooth, 

 continuous, or with a germ-pore. Cystidia variable. Growing on 

 the ground, or on wood, often caespitose. 



I. Growing on the ground, not adnate to mosses, rarely caespitose. 



263. P. aurea (Mattusch) Fr. (= Lepiota pyrenaea Quel. sec. Maire ; 

 Pholiota spectabilis Fr. sec. Quel.) Fr. Icon. t. 101. 



Aurea, golden. 



Entirely golden-tawny. P. 425 cm., fleshy, convex, obtuse, soft, 

 at first velvety, then torn into innate, hairy squamules. St. 6-28 x 1- 

 3-5 cm., somewhat equal, becoming pale, sprinkled below the ring with 



