REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I907 I5I 



color of the pileus, flesh white; lamellae close, sinuate, whitish be- 

 coming brownish ferruginous; stem equal, firm, solid or stuffed, 

 rough with numerous recurved tawny scales below the floccose or 

 lacerated annulus, smooth and white above; spores elliptic, .0002 

 of an inch long, .00016 broad. 



Pileus 1-4 inches broad; stem 2-4 inches long, 3-5 lines thick. 



Single or cespitose. Old stumps and prostrate trunks of decid- 

 uous trees. Edible. Of excellent flavor. 



P. squarrosoides faginea Pk. Plant smaller than in 

 the type and scales more scattered. On dead trunks of beech, 

 F a g u s a m e r i c a n a Sweet. 



The sharp scale pholiota may be distinguished from P h o 1 i o t a 

 squarrosa Aliill, by its viscid pileus, its compact, erect, pointed 

 scales, its sinuate lamellae and its smaller brownish ferruginous 

 spores. 



Pholiota ornella Pk. 



ORNATE PHOLIOTA 



Agaricus (Hypholoma) ornellus Pk. State Mus. Rep't 34. p. 42. 

 Pholiota appen die u lata Pk. State Mus. Bui. 94. p. 33, pi. P, fig.8-i 7. 



Pileus fleshy, firm, convex or nearly plane, viscid when moist, 

 shining, squamose with appressed spotlike scales, appendiculate with 

 fragments of the veil, dark red when young, soon fading to pink, 

 finally becoming yellowish brown or grayish brown, flesh at first 

 purplish red, specially in the lower part, whitish or pale yellow when 

 mature; lamellae thin, close, rounded behind, adnexed or decurrent 

 with a tooth, pale yellow or almost white becoming brownish ferru- 

 ginous ; stem short, firm, solid or with a small cavity, white above, 

 brownish and squamose below the shght fugacious annulus, white 

 within, the veil white or pale yellow, at first concealing the young 

 lamellae, soon breaking into fragments and adhering partly to the 

 margin of the pileus and partly to the stem ; spores .00024-.0003 of 

 an inch long, 00016-.0002. broad. 



Pileus 1-3 inches broad; stem 1-1.5 inches long, 2-4 hues thick. 



Single or in tufts. Decaying wood and sawdust. Adirondack 

 region, Saratoga and Tompkins counties. July to October. 



This is a rare species with us and a very perplexing one. The 

 annulus in its best development consists of a mere circle of scales 

 around the upper part of the stem. The greater part of the veil 

 usually adheres to the margin of the pileus. The species has some 

 characters suggestive of F 1 a m m u 1 a p o 1 y c h r o a Berk, 

 from which, however, it may be separated by its squamose pileus 



