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colors, softer substance and specially by its smaller spores. These 
are more brown than the spores of the early pholiocta, Pholiota 
praecox (Pers.) Fr., and this makes it doubtful whether the 
- species would not better be placed in the genus Stropharia. 
The cap is 1-2 inches broad and convex or nearly flat on the 
upper surface which is smooth and nearly white or sometimes 
yellow in the center or wholly ochraceous buff. The gills are 
rather narrow and closely placed side by side. When young they 
are whitish but with advancing age they become dark rusty brown. 
The stem is 1-2 inches long and 2-4 lines thick. It is white and 
adorned near the top by a thick cottony white collar which is 
sometimes torn or ragged and sometimes disappears as the plant 
grows old. It grows in rocky uncultivated places and may be 
found in August and September. It was discovered in Massa- 
chusetts but has been found near Syracuse in this State. Its 
scarcity detracts somewhat from its importance as an edible species. 
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Phylloporus rhodoxanthus (Schw.) Bres. 
YELLOW RED PHYLLOPORUS 
PLATE I16, FIG. 8-II 
Pileus fleshy, compact, convex or pulvinate, sometimes becoming 
plane or depressed in the center when old, minutely flocculose or 
subtomentose, dry, occasionally rimose, reddish, yellowish red, 
brownish red or tawny brown, flesh white or whitish; lamellae 
moderately broad, subdistant, adnate or decurrent, distinct or 
slightly anastomosing near the stem, golden yellow, the inter- 
spaces somewhat venose; stem straight or flexuous, equal or nar- 
rowed toward the base, solid or stuffed, reddish or red above and 
yellow below; spores oblong or subfusiform, .0004—.0005 of an 
inch long, .coo16-.0002 broad. 
The yellow red phylloporus is variable in the color of the cap 
and stem and in the character of the gills. It has been referred 
-by mycologists to various genera and described under various 
james, cAearicus, trhodoxanthus;* A catteus>pel-— 
letieri, Gomphidius rhodoxanthus, Clitocybe 
pelletieri, Flammula tammii, Fiammula para- 
doxa, Paxillus tammii and Paxillus rhodoxan- 
thus have all been applied to one or another form of this 
protean species. Because it does not agree well with the char- 
acters of any of the genera mentioned a new genus was instituted 
