122 PHOLIOTA 



295. P. sublutea (El. Dan.) Fr. Sub, somewhat; lutea, yellow. 

 P. 6-7-5 cm., yellow, fleshy, thin, expanded, umbonate, moist, 



covered with darker squamules', margin striate when moist. St. 10- 

 12 x -5-1 cm., yellow, base thickened. Ring narrow, spreading. Gills 

 cinnamon, decurrent, crowded. Grassy ground. Oct. Rare. 



296. P. phalerata Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 105, fig. 1. Phalerata, decorated. 



P. 5 cm., yellow, covered with superficial, fugacious, pale scales, 

 fleshy, thin, convex, then plane, obtuse, moist; margin involute, 

 appendiculate. St. 710 cm. x 6 mm., concolorous, base becoming 

 ferruginous, equal, everywhere fibrillose, or fasciculately squamosely 

 pilose, adpressedly flocculose above the ring. Ring white, distant, entire, 

 reflexed. Gills yellow, then cinnamon, adnato-decurrent, 2 mm. broad, 

 attenuated at the margin. Flesh concolorous. Spores " elliptical, 

 67 x 3 4/A, smooth. Cystidia on edge of gill fusiform-filamentous, 

 30-36 x 5-6 IJL " Rick. Pine woods, on twigs, pine needles, and the 

 ground. Rare. 



297. P. confragosa Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 105, figs. 2, 3. 



Confragosa, rough. 



P. 34 cm., brick-red, or cinnamon rufous when moist, tawny when 

 dry, hygrophanous, slightly fleshy, convexo-plane, very obtuse, 

 densely fiocculoso-furfuraceous, becoming smooth with age. St. 2-5 

 7-5 x 2-4 mm., pale ferruginous, fragile, equal, flexuose, or incurved, 

 fibrillosely peronate with the veil, or naked, striate above the ring. Ring 

 white, membranaceous, spreading, fibrillose, persistent, or fugacious, 

 at length reflexed. Gills rufous, or cinnamon rufous, sometimes tinged 

 with purple, adnate, scarcely decurrent, very thin, crowded, linear, 

 2 mm. broad, edge under a lens unequal, crenulate. Flesh concolorous, 

 becoming pale. Spores "ferruginous, elliptic-oblong, 8 x 4jit" Massee. 

 Subcaespitose. Beech, and fir trunks, and on old fallen elm. Oct. 

 Uncommon. 



298. P. mutabilis (Schaeff.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 402, t. 355. 



Mutabilis, changeable. 



P. 3-6 cm., cinnamon when moist, becoming pale when dry, hygro- 

 phanous, slightly fleshy, convex, then flattened, commonly obtusely 

 umbonate, sometimes depressed, sometimes squamulose when young. 

 St. 4-8 x -5-1 cm., ferruginous blackish, or umber downwards, paler 

 upwards, rigid, equal, or attenuated downwards, squarrosely scaly up 

 to the ring. Ring concolorous, membranaceous, externally squamulose. 

 Gills pallid, then cinnamon, adnato-decurrent, crowded, rather broad. 

 Flesh white, tinged brownish under the cuticle of the p. and in tJie st. 

 Spores deep ochraceous, elliptical, or subglobose, 7-8 x 4-5/i, 1-guttu- 



