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Pholiota spectabilis Fr. 

 ORANGE PHOLIOTA. SHOWY PHOLIOTA 



Pileus fleshy, compact, convex becoming nearly plane, dry, the 

 cuticle rupturing and forming silky or fibrillose scales, yellow or 

 tawny orange, flesh pale yellow, taste bitter; lamellae close, narrow, 

 adnate or slightly decurrent, yellow becoming ferruginous ; stem 

 ventricose or slightly thickened downward, solid, slightly radicating, 

 peronate, mealy above the annulus, fibrillose toward the base ; spores 

 elliptic, .0008-.0009 of an inch long, .0002-00024 broad. 



Pileus 2-4 inches broad ; stem 2-4 inches long, 6-10 lines thick. 



Single or cespitose. Decaying wood and stumps. Queens county. 

 Very rare. 



Pholiota curvipes Fr. 

 CURVE STEM PHOLIOTA 



Pileus fleshy but thin, convex becoming nearly plane, obtuse, dry 

 squamulose with minute appressed floccose scales, tawny yellow ; 

 lamellae thin, close, adnate, yellow becoming tawny; stem equal or 

 rarely thickened at the base, slender, commonly curved, stuffed or 

 hollow, fibrillose with a slight radiately floccose annulus, yellow ; 

 spores naviculoid, .0003-.0004 of an inch long, .0002-.00024 broad. 



Pileus 10-18 lines broad; stem about i inch long, 1-2 lines thick. 



Decayiiig wood. Adirondack region and Oneida county. July 

 to September. 



Our specimens vary in the color of the stem, it being in some 

 cases ferruginous toward the base. The spores also are a little 

 larger than the dimensions given in Sylloge, but the general agree- 

 ment with the characters of the species is so good that it does not 

 seem best to separate our plant. 



Pholiota luteofolia Pk. 



YELLOW GILLED PHOLIOTA 



Pileus fleshy, firm, convex, dry, squamulose, fibrillose on the 

 margin, pale red or yellowish; lamellae broad, subdistant, sinuate, 

 serrate on the edge, yellow becoming bright ferruginous ; stem firm, 

 fibrillose, solid, often curved from its place of growth, annulus 

 slight, fugacious ; spores bright ferruginous, .00028 of an inch long, 

 .00016 broad. 



