(446) 
annulus: stipe central, stout, firm, fleshy or woody, densely 
squarrous-squamose below the annulus. 
Type, Pholiota squarrosa (Muell.). (Syll. 5: 749.) 
Most of these species may be found in the Sydoge under 
Pholiota subsection Sguamosae. They are probably all 
lignatile and are mostly densely cespitose. 
130. CHAMAEOTA (W. G. Sm.) gen. nov. 
Agaricus § Chamaeota W. G. Sm. Clav. Agar. 15. 
1870. 
Annularia Schultz. 1868. Not Axnularius Roussel. 
1806. 
Putrescent, solitary or gregarious: pileus fleshy, discrete 
from the stipe: lamellae free: spores pink or salmon: veil 
persistent, forming an annulus: stipe central, fleshy, no cortex. 
Type, Agaricus xanthogrammus Cesati, Comm. Critt. 
Ital. 1: 58. 1861. (Syll. 5: 664, as Annularia xantho- 
granma.) 
This is Annularta of the Sylloge, but that name is pre- 
occupied. 
131. PLEUROTUS (Fries) Quél. Champ. Jura Vosg. 77. 
1872. 
Putrescent, solitary or cespitose: pileus fleshy, somewhat 
irregular: lamellae decurrent: spores white: veil well devel- 
oped, forming an annulus: stipe more or less eccentric, 
firm, fleshy or woody. 
Type, P. corticatus (Fries) Quél. (Syll. 5: 339-) 
This is Plewrotus § Lepiotariz, of the Sylloge. The other 
sections must be sought under the Gymnophyliz. It differs 
from Polymyces only in the slightly eccentric stipe. 
132. CHAMAEMYCES Batt. Fung. Hist. 32. 1755. 
Mucidula Pat. Hymén. Eur. 95 (metonym). 1887. Type, 
Armillaria mucida (Schrad.). (Syll. 5: 85.) 
Putrescent, solitary or cespitose: pileus fleshy: lamellae 
adnate, not waxy: spores white: veil forming an annulus: 
stipe central, slender, cortex subcartilaginous. 
