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Pholiota squarrosoides Pk. 



SHARP SCALE PHOLIOTA 



PLATE 73, FIG. 6-15 



Pileus fleshy, firm, subglobose when young, becoming convex, viscid 

 when moist, adorned with terete, erect, pointed, tawny scales which are 

 crowded in the center, scattered toward the margin, whitish, flesh white; 

 lamellae close, emarginate, whitish, becoming brownish ferruginous with 

 age; stem equal, firm, solid or stuffed, rough with numerous recurved, 

 tawny scales below the floccose or lacerated annulus, white above; 

 spores minute, elliptic, brownish ferruginous, .0002 of an inch long, .00016 

 broad. 



The sharp scale phoHota is closely related to the scaly pholiota, 

 P. squarrosa, but is distinguished from it by its compact, papillose or 

 almost spinose, erect, pointed scales, the viscid surface of its cap, its 

 emarginate gills and its smaller, brownish ferruginous spores. Its cap is 

 almost globose when young and densely covered with the tawny scales, 

 but it soon expands and becomes convex and the scales become scat- 

 tered, except in the center, and reveal the whitish viscid surface of the 

 cap. The gills are close to each other and not at all decurrent. They 

 are whitish when young but soon become pallid and finally brownish 

 rust color. The stem is firm, shaggy, with numerous recurved, tawny 

 scales except at the top, w^hich is white. The collar is imperfect or torn 

 and fragmentary. 



The cap is 1-4 inches broad ; stem 2-4 inches long and 3-5 fines 

 thick. The plants grow on dead or prostrate trunks or old stumps of 

 sugar maple in woods, either singly or in dense tufts, and occur in August 

 and September. The caps have a firm flesh but are excellent in flavor. 

 Variety faginea has the pileus and scales smaller, the latter more 

 scattered. It grows on dead trunks of beech. 



Agaricus haemorrhoidarius Schulz. 



BLEEDING MUSHROOM 



PLATE 75, FIG. 1-13 



Pileus fleshy, ovate or hemispheric, becoming broadly convex or 

 nearly plane, fibrillose or squamose, brown with darker scales, flesh white 

 or whitish, turning red where wounded, taste and odor agreeable; 

 lamellae rather broad, close, free, pink, becoming brown ; stem equal or 



