PHOLIOTA. 217 



On stumps, &c. Caespitose. 



In Cooko's figure the pileus is yellowish- white at the 

 margin, passing into tawny at the disc, the surface, especially 

 at the disc becoming cracked in an areolate manner. 



Pholiota capistrata. Cooke. 



Pileus H-2 in. across, flesh rather thick, white, convex, 

 margin involute, slightly striate, pale dingy yellow, rather 

 viscid ; gills slightly decurrent, 2 lines broad, pallid, growing 

 darker, stem 3-4 in. long, nearly equal, rather squamulose, 

 whitish, stuffed, almost straight or ascending ; ring superior, 

 white, spreading, persistent. 



Agaricus (Pholiota) capistratus, Cke., Journ. Bot. (1863),. 

 t. 3, f. 4; Cke., Hdbk., p. 143; Cke., Illustr., pi. 364. 



On old elm stumps, &c. 



Known by the dingy yellowish-white, slightly viscid 

 pileus with the margin faintly striate. 



Pholiota aegerita. Fr. 



Pileus 2-4 in. across, very fleshy, convex then plane, 

 rivulose and wrinkled, tawny, towards the margin becoming 

 pallid or whitish, flesh white, gills adnate with a decurrent 

 tooth, 3 lines broad, crowded, pallid then fuscous ; stem 4-6 in. 

 long, |-- in. thick, equal, fibrillose, white, silky, stuifed; 

 ring superior, white, tumid ; spores elliptical, 10 x 5 p.. 



Agaricus (Pholiota~) aegerita, Fries, Epicr., p. 164; Fries, 

 Hym. Eur., p. 219 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 143 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 453. 



On trunks of poplar, ash, &o. 



A very fine, large species, growing in a caespitose manner. 

 The cuticle of the pileus is sometimes cracked in an areolate 

 manner. Cooke's figure has the pileus uniform bistre-colour 

 with the extreme margin incurved. 



Pholiota luxurians. Fr. 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, slightly fleshy, convex and gibbous,, 

 then expanded, unequal, silky, breaking up into squamules, 

 yellowish-white, then rufous-brown ; gills adnexed then 

 decurrent, crowded, greyish flesh-colour, then brownish;, 

 stem H-2 in. long, white then brownish, rather squamulose, 

 rigid, stuffed, ring superior ; spores elliptical, 10 x 4 /*. 



Agaricus (Pholiota) luxurians, Fries, Epicr., p. 1(54; Cke., 



