Ochrosporee 



Spores inclining to fuscous, spheroid-ellipsoid, 8-13x5-7/1, K.; 8x6/* Phoiiota. 

 W. G. S.; 8- i 3x6-7^ Massee. 



West Virginia, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, May to 

 August. On rich ground, lawns, gardens, etc. Mcllvaine. 



Coming as it does in early spring, it is a prized species wherever 

 found. 



The caps only are good. 



B. TRUNCIGENI. On wood. 



Squamosi. Scaly. 



(Plate LXXIII.) 



P. squarro'sa Mull.squarrosits, scurfy. (Plate LXXLz, fig, 3, page 

 270.) Pileus 3-5 in. broad, saf- 

 fron-rust-color, scaly with innate, 

 crowded, revoltite, darker (be- 

 coming dingy brown), persistent 

 scales, fleshy, convex bell-shaped 

 then flattened, commonly obtusely 

 umbonate or gibbous, dry. Flesh 

 light-yellow, compact when 

 young, sometimes thin. Stems 

 curt when young, as much as 8 

 in. long when full-grown, as much 

 as i in. thick at the apex, re- 

 markably attenuated downwards, 

 stuffed, scaly as far as the ring 

 with crowded, revolute, darker 

 scales. Ring only slightly distant 

 from the apex, rarely membrana- 

 ceous, entire or often slashed, 

 general^ floccoso-radiate, of the same color as the scales. Gillsadnate 

 with a decurrent tooth, crowded, narrow, pallid-olivaceous then rust- 

 color. 



Spores ferruginous. Very cespitose, forming large heaps. Stems 

 commonly cohering at the base, varying very much in stature in the 



PHOLIOTA SQUARROSA. 

 One-half natural size. 



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