118 PHOLIOTA 



45 x 10-12ji, contents olive-yellow" Rick. Smell unpleasant, like 

 rotting wood, sometimes none. Densely caespitose. On and near 

 trunks and stumps, especially ash and apple, more rarely under 

 conifers. July Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



var. Mulleri Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 392, t. 471. 



0. F. Muller, the Danish mycologist. 



Differs from the type in the obtuse, moist, pallid p., with darker ad- 

 pressed scales, in the equal stem, the entire ring, and in the gills becoming 

 fuscous. Spores ferruginous, elliptical, 7-9 x 4-5 fi, 1-2-guttulate. On 

 beech stumps. Sept. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. verruculosa (Lasch) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 398, t. 370, upper figs., 

 as Pholiota tuberculosa (Schaeff.) Fr. sec. Boud. 



Verruculosa, full of warts. 



Differs from the type in the compact, obtuse, yellow p., with crowded, 

 cinnamon scales and papillae, and in the villose-scaly stem. On maple 

 trunks. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, 



var. reflexa (Schaeff.) Fr. Schaeff. Icon. t. 80. Reflexa, bent back. 



Differs from the type in the thinner, cuspidately umbonate, pilosely- 

 squamulose p., the long, equal stem, and the membranaceous ring. At 

 the base of oak, and beech trees. Uncommon. 



282. P. subsquarrosa Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 103, fig. 3. 



Sub, somewhat; squarrosa, scaly. 



P. 5-6 cm., brown-ferruginous, with darker, adpressed, fioccose scales, 

 fleshy, convex, obtuse, or gibbous, viscid. St. 5-8 cm. x 8-10 mm., 

 yellow-ferruginous, clothed with darker, adpressed scales, equal, fur- 

 nished with an annular zone at the apex. Gills pale, then dingy yellow, 

 deeply sinuate, emarginate, almost free, arcuate, crowded. Flesh of 

 stem becoming yellow-ferruginous. Spores ochraceous, oblong-ellip- 

 tical, 4-5-5 x 2-2-5/z. Cystidia ochraceous, fusiform, tapering into 

 a long exserted point, 25-30 x 6-8 p., thick walled, contents yellowish, 

 granular. Subcaespitose. On fir stumps and at the base of trunks. 

 Sept. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



283. P. grandis Rea. Grandis, large. 



P. 20-30 cm., fulvous tawny, fleshy, convex, then expanded and 

 broadly gibbous, covered with innate, deep tawny squamules at the cir- 

 cumference, which become revolute at the disc. St. 25-30 x 6-7 cm., 

 tawny below the ring, paler and deeply striate for 5 cm. above, fusi- 

 form, slightly squamulose. Ring distant, almost fugacious. Gills 

 pallid, then fuscous, deeply sinuato-decurrent, very broad, 1-5-2 cm. wide, 

 attenuated in front, somewhat crowded. Flesh light yellow, ferruginous 



