REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I907 155 



Pileus 1-2 inches broad ; stem 1-2.5 inches long, 3-5 lines thick. 



Subce3pitose. Dead trunks of birch trees, Betula lutea Mx. 

 Sullivan county. September. The reddish color of the pileus often 

 fades with age. The species is rare and has not been collected 

 recently. In some of its characters it shows a close relationship to 

 Pholiota tuberculosa Fr. from which it may be separated 

 by the absence of a bulbous base to the stem. 



Pholiota lutea Pk. 



YELLOW PHOLIOTA 



Pileus fleshy, firm, convex, dry, slightly silky and sometimes 

 minutely tloccose squamulose in the center, buff yellow, often a little 

 darker in the center, the thin incurved margin slightly surpassing 

 the lamellae, flesh pale yellow, odor pleasant, taste bitter ; lamellae 

 thin, close, ro^.inded behind, adnexed, pale yellow becoming dark 

 ferruginous ; stem firm, solid, thickened at the base, fibrillose, col- 

 ored like the pileus, the annulus superior, slight, fugacious ; spores 

 ferruginous, .0003 of an inch long, .0002 broad. 



Pileus 2-4 inches broad ; stem 2-3 inches long, 3-5 lines thick. 



Decaymg wood and trunks of trees in woods. Essex county. 

 August. 



Pileus hygrophanous 



Pholiota cerasina Pk. 



CHERRY PHOLIOTA 



Pileus fleshy, firm, broadly convex, glabrous, hygrophanous, cin- 

 namon color when moist, yellow when dry, odor amygdaline, flesh 

 yellow ; 'amellae close, sinuate, yellow becoming cinnamon or ferru- 

 ginous ; stem equal, solid, sometimes curved, furfuraceous above the 

 annulus, which is slight and fugacious; spores elliptic, minutely 

 rough, .0003 of an inch long, .0002 broad. 



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



Comm.only cespitose. Old prostrate trunks of trees in woods. 

 Cayuga county. August. 



A rare species. The amygdaline or cherry odor suggests the 

 specific name. 



Pholiota acericola Pk. 



MAPLE PHOLIOTA 



Pileus fleshy but thin, broadly convex or nearly plane, glabrous, 

 often rugosely reticulate or corrugated, hygrophanous, yellow or 



