116 PHOLIOTA 



276. P. aegerita (Porta) Fr. (= PTioliota capistrata Cke., Pholiota 



luxurians (Batt.) Fr.) Cke. Illus. nos. 385, 386, t. 364, as Pho- 

 liota capistrata Cke. and t. 453. afoetpo?, the black poplar. 



P. 3-12 cm., tawny, becoming pale white towards the margin, fleshy, 

 convex then plane, rivuloso- wrinkled, slightly viscid when moist, silky 

 when dry, disc often areolately cracked; margin incurved, scalloped. 

 St. 815 x 1-53 cm., white, becoming stained with yellow, attenuated 

 downwards, fibrillose, often striate. Eing white, membranaceous, 

 large, superior, reflexed. Gills pallid, then fuscous, adnate, decurrent 

 with a small tooth, crowded. Flesh white, brownish under the cuticle 

 of the p. and at the base of the st. Spores ferruginous, elliptical, 

 9-10 x 5-7 /i. Cystidia broadly clavate or pear-shaped, 30-36 x 12- 

 15/x. Smell and taste pleasant. Edible. Caespitose. Stumps, 

 especially elm. May Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



277. P. Junonia Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 397, t. 369. 



Junonia, belonging to Juno. 



P. 4-8 cm., rich yellow, or tawny yellow, fleshy, firm, convexo-plane, 

 obtuse. St. 49 cm. x 614 mm., tawny, yellow and mealy above the 

 ring, equal, firm, incurved, often excentric. Ring concolorous, mem- 

 branaceous, inferior, reflexed. Gills yellow, then tawny, adnate, 

 crowded, broad. Flesh pale yellow, compact. Spores ferruginous, 

 elliptical, 8-10 x 6-7 /LI. Usually solitary. Trunks. Oct. Uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



**P. scaly, gills changing colour. P. not hygrophanous. 



a. Gills pallid, then becoming fuscous, olivaceous, clay 

 coloured, not truly ferruginous. 



278. P. destruens (Brond.) Fr. (= Pholiota comosa Fr. sec. Quel., 



Pholiota heteroclita Fr. sec. Bres.) Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 84. 



Destruens, destructive. 



P. 6-20 cm., yellowish white, disc becoming tawny, covered with white, 

 woolly, fugacious scales, fleshy, somewhat viscid, convex, then flattened, 

 sometimes gibbose, or broadly umbonate; margin at first involute, 

 fibrillose. St. 5-17 x 2-3 cm., concolorous, covered with white, fugacious 

 squamules, becoming smooth, attenuated at the apex, base bulbous 

 and rooting. Ring white, floccose, fugacious. Gills white, then becoming 

 umber cinnamon, rounded behind, adnexed, or plano-adnate and 

 striato-decurrent, crowded. Flesh white, fulvous cinnamon in the base 

 of the st. Spores fuscous ferruginous, elliptical, 8 x 5/x. Cystidia "on 

 edge of gill cylindrical, or clavate-capitate, 40-60 x 8-12ju " Rick. 

 Smell unpleasant, taste bitter, then sweet. Poplar, birch, beech, and 

 willow trunks. Sept. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



