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not hygrophanous. Gills adnate, without a decurrent tooth> 

 rather thin, crowded, at first bright sulphur-colour, then 

 ferruginous, edge very entire. The sulphur-coloured scales 

 on the tawny pileus distinguish this species from every 

 uther. (Fries.) 



Pholiota Junonia. Fr. 



Pileus 2-3 i in. across, fleshy, convex then plane, often 

 gibbous, dry, "even, glabrous, rich yellow or tawny-yellow; 

 skills adnate, slightly rounded behind, crowded, yellow then 

 tawny ; stem 2-4 in. long, 3-4 lines thick, equal, even, 

 incurved, yellowish upwards, tawny below, above the rather 

 large, entire ring, furfuraceous, solid ; spores ferruginous. 



Agaricus (Pholiota) Junonius, Fries, Syst. Myc., i. p. 244 ; 

 ( 'ke., Hdbk., p. 146 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 369. 



On trunks. 



The solitary or subsolitary habit, and smooth stem and 

 pileus mark the present species. 



Stem solid 1^2 in. long, 3-4 in. thick, equal, firm, in- 

 curved, often excentric, even (not squamose), yellow ; ring 

 reflexed, approaching the pileus, above which the stem is 

 farinaceous. Pileus fleshy, firm, convexo-plane, obtuse, 2 in. 

 broad, dry, even, glabrous, yellow; flesh compact, pallid; 

 gills adnate, crowded, broad in proportion, plane, yellow, at 

 length ferruginous. Requires to be carefully distinguished 

 from forms of Flammula Jiybrida with a ring. (Fries.) 



Pholiota tuberculosa. Schaeff. 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, flesh thick, compact, yellow, convex 

 then flattened, dry, glabrous, at length splitting up into 

 innate squamules, tawny-yellow, margin paler ; gills sinuate, 

 adnexed, 2 lines broad, plane, pale yellow then tawny or 

 spotted with ferruginous, margin serrulate; stem 1-1 \ in. 

 long, 2-3 lines thick, incurved, more or less bulbous, root- 

 ing, fibrillose, hollow, the partly membranaceous ring 

 deciduous, yellowish, base sometimes ferruginous; spores 

 elliptical, pale ferruginous, 7 x 4 p.. 



Agaricm (Phollotc?) tuberculosus, Fries, Syst. Myc., i. p. 244 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 146; Cke., Illustr., pi. 370A ; Fries, Icones, 

 ii., p. 4, t. 104, f. 2. 



On trunks, chiefly birch. 



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