146 PholiotaPluteolus. 



[gregaria, Wettst. P. convex then exp. glabrous, edge thin, 

 striate ; sometimes becoming raised, pale fuscous centre darker ; g. 

 adnato-decur. broad, crowded, pallid then cinnamon ; s. erect or 

 curved, fistulose, fibrous, tough, slender, squarrosely squamulose up to 

 spreading rusty ring, rusty below and pale above ring ; sp. 6 8 x 4. 



marginata, Batsch. P. 2 3 cm. exp. glabrous, hygr. edge striate, 

 honey-colour then pale ; g. adnate, crowded ; s. 3 5 cm. not scaly, 

 ring fugacious, dark base with white velvety down ; sp. 7 8 x 4. 



P. mutabilis differs in scaly s. 



sororia, Karst. P. convex, exp. slightly striate, squamulose, 

 tawny-cinnamon ; g. sinuato-adnate, crowded ; s. equal, wavy, colour 

 of p. then paler, variegated with white squamules, apex scurfy ; sp. 

 67 x 34. 



Close to Pholiota marginata. 



mustelina, Fr. P. 1 1*5 cm. campan.-convex, even, glabrous, 

 dry, yellow then ochre; g. adnate, tawny cinnamon; s. 2 2'5 cm. 

 even, pallid, white-mealy above superior ring, base thickened, with 

 white down ; sp. . 



unicolor, Fl. Dan. P. 1 1'5 cm. campan.-convex, subumb. hygr. 

 bay then ochre ; g. subtriangular ; s. 34 cm. colour of p., ring 

 slender ; sp. 9 10 x 5. 



[mellea, Karst. P. convex exp. even, glabrous, honey-colour; 

 g. crowded, fuscescent ; s. wavy, glabrous, whitish, ring persistent ; 

 sp. 8 12x6 9. 



Differs from Pholiota unicolor in colour. 



C. MUSCIGENI. Resembling a Galera with 

 a ring; hygr. 



pumila, Fr. P. 1 1~5 cm. hemispher. even, ochre; g. adnate, 

 crowded, broad, yellow then pallid; s. 3 4cm. slender, ring fugacious, 

 forming a zone ; sp. 8 10 x 5 6. 



[muscigena, Q. Honey yellow then pale ochre. P. cauipan. 

 umb. thin, striate ; g. triquetrous, thin, pale then ochre ; s. slender, 

 fistulose, fibrillose, slightly striate, cottony at the base ; ring mem- 

 branous, narrow, saffron-ochre ; sp. 8 9 long. 



mycenoides, Fr. P. 1 2 cm. campan.-convex, everywhere striate, 

 hygr. rusty then tawny or pallid ; g. adnate ; s. 3 4 cm. rusty, 

 glabrous, ring white; sp. 8 10x5 6. 



rufidula, Kalchbr. P. exp. depr. not striate, rather rufous brick- 

 red then pale, white-flocculose at edge ; g. adnate, branched ; s. 

 watery rufescent, white-fibrillose, ring superior ; sp. 8 10 x 4 6. 



PLUTEOLUS, Fr. 



reticulatus, Fr. P. 3 4 cm. campan. exp. viscid, reticulated 

 with raised anastomosing wrinkles, pale violet ; g. free, rusty saffron; 

 s. 3 5 cm. fragile, fibrillose ; sp. 7 x 4. 



