OCHRE-SPORED AGARICS. 



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stem is stuffed, later fistulose, even, fragile, striate often above the 

 annulus. The stem is whitish or sometimes flesh color. The veil is 

 whitish, large, frail, and sometimes breaks away from the stem and 

 clings in shreds to the margin of the cap. 



Figure 145 is from plants (No. 2362, C. U. herbarium) collected 

 on the campus of Cornell University, June, 1898. The taste is often 

 slightly bitter. 



PhoHota marginata Batsch. This is one of the very common species, 

 a small one, occurring all during the autumn, on decaying trunks, etc., 

 in the woods. The plants are usually clustered, though appearing 

 also singly. They are from 4-10 cm. high, the cap 3-4 cm. broad, 

 and the stem 3-5 yu in thickness. 



The pileus is con- 

 vex, then plane, tan 

 or leather colored, 

 darker when dry. It 

 has a watery appear- 

 ance (hygropha- 

 nous), somewhat 

 fleshy, smooth, stri- 

 ate on the margin. 

 The gills are joined 

 squarely to the stem, 

 crowded, at maturity 

 dark reddish brown 

 from the spores. 



The stem is cy- 

 lindrical, equal, smooth, fistulose, of the same color as the pileus, 

 becoming darker, and often with whitish fibrils at the base. The 

 annulus is distant from the apex of the stem, and often disappears 

 soon after the expansion of the pileus. Figure 147 is from plants 

 (No. 2743, C. U. herbarium) collected near Ithaca. 



Pholiota unicolor Vahl, is a smaller plant which grows in similar 

 situations. The plants are usually clustered, 3-5 cm. high, and the 

 caps 6-12 mm. in diameter, the annulus is thin but entire and per- 

 sistent. The entire plant is bay brown, becoming ochraceous in 

 color, and the margin of the cap in age is striate, first bell-shaped, 

 then convex and somewhat umbonate. The gills are lightly 

 adnexed. 



Pholiota adiposa Fr. The fatty pholiota usually forms large clus- 

 ters during the autumn, on the trunks of trees, stumps, etc. It is 

 sometimes of large size, measuring up to 15 cm. and the pileus up to 



Figure 147. Pholiota marginata. Cap and stem 

 leather color, gills dark reddish brown when mature 

 size). Copyright. 



