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with darker, recurved scales as far up as the superior spread- 

 ing, floccose ring, smooth and pale above the ring, stuffed ; 

 spores ferruginous, 8X4;*. 



Pholiota adiposa, Fries, Syst. Myc., i. p. 242. Pileus 2-4 

 in. across, fleshy, compact, convex, obtuse, glutinous, 

 yellow, with concentrically arranged, superficial, seceding, 

 darker squarrose scales ; flesh whitish ; gills adnate, 3-4 

 lines broad, yellow, then ferruginous ; stem glutinous, 3-6 

 in. long, up to in. thick, subequal, base somewhat 

 bulbous, yellow, with concentrically arranged, ferruginous, 

 evanescent squamules up to the superior, floccose, radi- 

 ating ring, stuffed ; spores elliptical, ferruginous, 7 X 3 /*. 



Pholiota destruens, Brond, Crypt. Agen., tab. 6. Pileus 

 fleshy, irregular, floccose with paler lanose squamules when 

 dry, yellowish white, margin involute, fibrillose, 3-4 in. 

 across ; stem solid, 4-7 in. long, up to i in. thick at 

 the base, narrowed upwards, albo-squamulose up to the 

 fugacious ring ; gills adnexed, striato-decurrent, crenu- 

 late, pallid, then umber- brown ; spores elliptical, 8-9 x 

 5-6 /* 



Hypholoma, Fries. Pileus fleshy, margin incurved when 

 young; stem central; veil interwoven, adhering in frag- 

 ments to the margin of the pileus (appendiculate), not 

 forming a distinct ring on the stem ; gills adnate or sinuate ; 

 spores purple-brown or deep purple. 



Hypholoma fasciculare, Huds. Fasciculate ; taste in- 

 tensely bitter; pileus 1-3 in. across, convex, then expanded, 

 subumbonate, thin, glabrous, tawny, margin yellow; gills 

 adnate, closely crowded, narrow, yellow, then greenish, sub- 

 deliquescent ; spores elliptical, 7 X 4 ft. Stem 3-4 in. long, 



