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without any umbo, its more fully developed and white or yellowish 

 veil and its differently colored and adnexed lamellae. From the 

 appendiculate margin it was referred to the genus Hypholoma. 

 Specimens collected later and having a better developed annulus 

 were described as a Pholiota. The viscid pileus with its spotlike 

 scales and appendiculate margin and red, pink or purplish hues, 

 fading with age to grayish brown or yellow brown, are characteristic 

 of the species. 



Pholiota erinaceella Pk. 



BRISTLY PHOLIOTA 

 Agaricus detersibilis Pk. State Miis. Rep't 28. Bot. ed. p. 49. 



Pileus thin, hemispheric or convex, dry, densely coated with small 

 erect separable pyramidal or spinelike scales, tawny brown ; lamellae 

 broad, close, adnexed, pallid becoming cinnamon brown ; stem equal, 

 stuffed or hollow, densely squamulose below the slight annulus, often 

 curved, colored like the pileus ; spores naviculoid, .0003-.00035 of 

 an inch long, .00016-.0002 broad. 



Pileus 6-12 lines broad; stem 6-12 lines long, i line thick. 



Dead and decaying trunks of deciduous trees in woods. Adiron- 

 dack mountains, Schoharie and Oneida counties. June to Sep- 

 tember. 



The small soft crowded scales of the pileus, which are easily 

 rubbed away, constitute a prominent character of this species. The 

 annulus is little more than the abrupt termination of the scaly coat- 

 ing of the stem. The name under which the species was first 

 described was found to be preoccupied. This made it necessary 

 • o give it another name, and the one here given was chosen. 



Pholiota squarrosa Miill. 

 SCALY PHOLIOTA 



Pileus fleshy, firm, broadly conic becoming convex or nearly plane, 

 dry, covered wih tawny squarrose scales, yellowish or yellowish 

 brown; lamellae narrow, close, adnate or slightly decurrent, pallid 

 becoming ferruginous; stem equal or nearly so, often flexuous, solid 

 or stuffed, adorned with recurved scales, pallid or tawny brown; 

 spores .0003 of an inch long, .00016 broad. 



Pileus 1-3 inches broad ; stem 3-5 inches long, 3-5 lines thick. 



Prostrate trunks of trees in woods. Adirondack mountains and 

 Rensselaer county. August. 



