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lamellae thin, close, slightly sinuate, adnate or slightly decurrent, 

 yellowish becoming subf erruginous ; stem slender, equal, hollow, 

 fibrillose, colored like but paler than the pileus or sometimes brown- 

 ish toward the base ; Spores .0003-.0004 of an inch long, .0002-.00024 

 broad. 



Pileus 6-16 lines broad; stem 1-2 inches long, 1-2 lines thick. 



Single or cespitose. Decaying wood in woods. Albany, Rensse- 

 laer and Essex counties. September to November. The annulus 

 is sometimes but slightly developed, and such specimens are liable 

 to be mistakenly referred to the genus Naucoria. 



Pholiota confragosa Fr. 

 ROUGH PHOLIOTA 



Pileus fleshy but thin ; convex becoming nearly plane, fragile, 

 obtuse, fioccose squamulose becoming naked, hygrophanous, cinna- 

 mon rufous and striate on the margin when moist, tawny when dry; 

 lamellae thin, close, adnate, very narrow, rufous ; stem equal, hollow, 

 fibrillose below the spreading membranous annulus, striate above, 

 pallid or pale ferruginous; spores .00028-.0003 of an inch long, 

 .0002-.00024 broad. 



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



Single or cespitose. Decaying wood and prostrate mossy trunks 

 in woods. Adirondack mountains. September. 



The scales of the pileus are generally so minute that they are 

 easily overlooked. The whole plant is nearly of one color. It is 

 quite fragile and should be handled carefully. The dimensions of 

 the spores are taken from the American plant, as the publications of 

 the European authors do not agree in respect to this character. 



Pholiota marginalia Pk. 



SLIGHTLY MARGINED PHOLIOTA 



Pileus fleshy, convex becoming nearly plane, glabrous, hygropha- 

 nous, yellowish red or subferruginous and usually striatulate on the 

 margin when young or moist, whitish or yellowish buff when dry, 

 the young margin slightly silky with whitish fibrils; lamellae thin, 

 close, adnexed, minutely eroded on the edge, whitish becoming dark 

 ferruginous; stem equal or nearly so, fiexuous, fibrillose below the 

 slight fugacious annulus, mealy or pruinose above, stuffed or hollow, 

 whitish or pallid, sometimes with a white mycelioid tomentum at 



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