REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I907 1 43 



22 Pileus more than 2 inches broad 23 



22 Pileus not more than 2 inches broad -. 24 



23 Pileus when dry cinnamon or ferruginous cerasina 



23 Pileus when dry yellow acericola 



24 Pileus viscid when moist discolor 



24 Pileus not viscid «... 25 



25 Pileus yellow when dry autumnalis 



25 Pileus tawny when dry confragosa 



25 Pileus whitish or yellowish buff when dry marginella 



TERRE STR I AL 



Spores ferruginous 

 Pholiota minima Pk. 



SMALLEST PHOLIOTA 



Pileus membranous, hemispheric or campanulate, umbonate, 

 glabrous, hygrophanous, brown and striatulate on the margin when 

 moist, pale buff or yellowish white when dry; lamellae rather close 

 subventricose, adnexed, ferruginous ; stem slender, glabrous, solid, 

 shining, similar to the pileus in color, annulus near the middle, slight, 

 evanescent; spores elliptic, .0003 of an inch long, .0002 broad. 



Pileus 2-4 lines broad ; stem 8-12 lines long, .25 line thick. 



Among hair cap mosses, Polytrichum. Catskill mountains. Sep- 

 tember. An extremely small species and a very rare one. It was 

 discovered 20 years ago and has not been found since. It is 

 separable from Pholiota m y c e n o i d e s Fr. by its smaller 

 size, paler color, umbonate pileus and solid stem. The umbonate 

 pileus also separates it from P. p u m i 1 a Fr. 



Pholiota caperata (Pers.) Fr. 

 WRINKLED PHOLIOTA 



State Mus. Rep't 54. p. 182, pi. 73, fig.i-5- 



Pileus fleshy, firm, thin toward tli€ margin, ovate becoming 

 broadly campanulate or convex, obtuse, glabrous or often whitened 

 in the center by whitish flocci or silky fibrils, generally more or less 

 wrinkled, yellow, flesh white; lamellae moderately close, adnate, 

 often uneven on the edge, whitish becoming ferruginous ; stem equal, 

 solid, stout, sometimes bulbous, glabrous or slightly floccose, white 

 or whitish, the metnbranous annulus white, thick on the edge ; spores 

 subelliptic, .0005-.0006 of an inch long, .00025-0003 broad. 



Pileus 2-4 inches broad; stem 2-5 inches long, 5-10 line^ jhick. 



