PHOLIOTA. 217 



On stiunps, &c. Caespitose. 



In Cooko's figure the pileus is yellowisli-wliite at tha 

 margin, passing into tawny at the disc, the surface, especially 

 at the disc becoming cracked in an areolate manner. 



Pholiota capistrata. Cooke. 



Pileus li-2 in. across, flesh rather thick, white, convex,^ 

 margin involute, slightly striate, pale dingy yellow, rather 

 ■viscid ; gills slightly decurrent, 2 lines hroad, pallid, growing 

 darker, stem 3-4 in. long, nearly equal, rather squamulose, 

 whitish, stuffed, almost straight or ascending ; ring superior, 

 white, spreading, persistent. 



Agarieus {Pholiota) capistratvs, Cke., Joum. Bot. (1863),. 

 t. 3, f. 4; Cke., Hdbk., p. 143; Cke., Illustr., pi. 364. 



On old elm stumps, &c. 



Known by the dingy yellowish-white, slightly viscid 

 pileus with the margin faintly btriate. 



Pholiota aegerita. Fr. 



Pileus 2-4 in. across, very fleshy, convex then plane, 

 rivulose and wrinkled, tawny, towards the margin becoming 

 pallid or whitish, flesh white, gills adnate with a decurrent 

 tooth, 3 lines broad, crowded, pallid then fuscous ; stem 4-6 in. 

 long, J-§- in. thick, equal, fibrillose, white, silky, stuffed ; 

 ring superior, white, tumid ; spores elliptical, 10 x 5 /t. 



Agarieus (Pholiota) aegerita. Fries, Epicr., p. 164; Fries, 

 Hym. Eur., p. 219 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 143 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 453. 



On trunks of poplar, ash, &o. 



A very fine, large species, growing in a caespitose manner. 

 The cuticle of the pileus is sometimes cracked in an areolate 

 manner. Cooke's figure has the pileus uniform bistre-colour 

 with the extreme margin incurved. 



Pholiota luxtirians. Fr. 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, slightly fleshy, convex and gibbous, 

 then expanded, unequal, silky, breaking up into squamules, 

 yellowish-white, then rufous-brown ; gills adnexed then 

 decurrent, crowded, greyish flesh-colour, then brownish; 

 stem lJ-2 in. long, white then brownish, rather squamulose, 

 rigid, stuffed, ring superior ; spores elliptical, 10 x 4 jn. 



Agarieus (Pholiota) luxurians, Fries, Epicr., p. 164; Cke., 



