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Stem fistulose, equal, fibrillose or slightly striate, not scaly, 

 of the same color as the pileus, but becoming fuscous and com- 

 monly white-velvety at the base. 



Pileus 2.5 cm. or more broad; stem 5 cm. long, 2 to 4 mm. 

 thick. 



Spores 7 to 8 x 4 /A. (Massee.) 



On rotten logs in woods. Autumn. Our plants are referred 

 with some doubt to this species, although they agree well with 

 the figure in Atkinson's Studies, f. 143. They have, however, 

 some of the characters ascribed to P. mutabilis Schaeff. The 

 lamellae instead of being adnate, are sometimes, in large specimens, 

 plainly decurrent; the pileus is.. cinnamon when moist; the stem 

 which is often, incurved from position, is commonly enlarged 

 downwards, stuffed then hollow. The spores are ovate, ferrugi- 

 nous, 10 x 6 /A. 

 Pholiota praecox Pers. 



Pileus whitish then tan-color, fleshy, soft, convex, soon plane, 

 obtuse, even, smooth, moist in rainy weather; flesh soft, white. 



Lamellae rounded-adnexed, crowded, whitish then fuscous. 



Stem stuffed, hollow upwards, equal, even, fragile, at first 

 mealy with white flocci then somewhat naked, white; ring entire, 

 reflexed, white. 



Spores sphaeroid-ellipsoid, 8 to 15 x 5 to 7 p. Pileus 7.5 cm. 

 broad; stem 7.5 to 10 cm. long, 6 to 8 mm. thick. 



On railroad station grounds, Wheaton, June, 1905. In all 

 of our specimens the veil is wholly appendiculate, leaving no trace 

 on the stem. On this account they were referred to the genus 

 Hebeloma. Prof. Peck, however, assures me that the plant is 

 Pholiota praecox, and states that it is variable in the method of 

 attachment of the veil. The upper part of the stem is strongly 

 granular-pubescent. The lamellae in drying become much 

 darker than the color of the spores. Mr. Worthington G. Smith, 

 in Synopsis of Basidiomycetes in the British Museum, p. 121 , ha? 

 proposed a new genus, Togaria, for this and other species of 

 Pholiota in which the pileus is nearly' distinct from the fleshy 

 stem. 



Pholiota curvipes Fr. 



Pileus tawny-yellow or orange, fleshy, thin but slightly firm 

 and tough, convex then expanded, obtuse, wholly innate-flocculose 

 then torn into minute scales, dry, not hygroph'anous. 



Lamellae adnate, crowded, light yellowish, at length tawny, 

 edge white, at length floccose-crenate. 



Stem fistulose^ equal, incurved, tough, fibrillose or delicately 

 squamulose, light yellow. Ring rarely manifest, commonly 

 floccose-radiate, soon vanishing. 



Pileus 2 to 5 cm. broad; stem 2.5 to 3.5 cm. long, 2 mm. or a 

 little more thick. 



On a rotten log of Tilia americana in woods. Glen Ellyn. 

 June. Pileus 2 to 3 cm. broad, the curved stem 1.5 to 2.5 cm. 



