222 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



Pholiota subsquarrosa. Fr. 



Pileus 1|-2| in. across, fleshy, convex, viscid, ferruginous- 

 brown, with darker, adpressed, floccose scales ; gills slightly 

 adnexed, crowded, 2-3 lines broad, yellow, then dingy tan ; 

 stem 2-3 1 in. long, 3 lines thick, equal, stuffed then hollow, 

 yellow, ornamented with darker subsquarrose scales as high 

 up as the superior imperfect ring, smooth above the ring. 



Agaricus (Pholiota) subsquarrosus, Fries, Monogr., ii. p. 298 ; 

 Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 221 ; Fries, Icoues, ii. p. 3, pi. 103 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 145. 



On dead wood, also on the ground near trunks. 



Subcaespitose, almost inodorous. Stem stuffed (often hollow 

 when old), 3 in. long, equal, ferruginous-yellow, densely 

 covered with darker scales that are adpressed or with the 

 tips free ; even above the annular zone. A distinct ring is 

 not present. Pileus fleshy, convex, obtuse or gibbous, about 

 2 in. broad, viscid, brownish-ferruginous. Gills deeply 

 sinuate behind, emarginate, almost free, crowded, pale at 

 first, then dingy yellow ; spores ferruginous. (Fries.) 



With the habit and general appearance of Pholiota squarrosa, 

 but known at once by the almost free gills. 



f f Gills yellow, then pure ferruginous or tawny. 



Pholiota spectabilis. Fr. 



Pileus 35 in. across, compact, fleshy, convex then ex- 

 panded, dry, cuticle torn up into silky, fibrillose scales, 

 bright tawny-orange, becoming paler ; flesh firm, sulphur- 

 yellow ; stem 3-4 in. long, 1 in. and more at the thickest part, 

 ventricose below the middle, rather rooting, peronate, yellow 

 tinged with tawny up to the inferior, ample, persistent, 

 spreading ring, paler and mealy above ; gills adnato-decurrent, 

 crowded, rather narrow, yellow then ferruginous; spores 

 elliptical, ferruginous, 9 x 4 p. 



Agaricus (Pholiota) spectabilis, Fries, Blench., p. 28 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 145 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 352. 



On stumps. Subcaespitose. 



More or less densely caespitose, very compact, in dry 

 weather shining as if varnished, but not at all viscid. 

 Stem solid, firm, 3 in. and more long, 1 in. thick, more or less 



