222 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



Pholiota subsquarrosa. Fr. 



Pileus l^-2i in. across, fleshy, convex, viscid, ferruginous- 

 ■jbrown, witli darker, adpressed, floccose scales ; gills slightly 

 adnexed, crowded, 2-3 lines broad, yellow, then dingy tan ; 

 stem 2-31- in. long, 3 lines thick, eqnal, stuffed then hollow, 

 yellow, ornamented with darker subsquarrose scales as high 

 Tip as the superior imperfect ring, smooth above the ring. 



Agaricus (^Pholiota) suhsquarrosus, Fries, Monogr., ii. p. 298 ; 

 Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 221 ; Fries, Icoues, ii. p. 3, pi. 103 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 145. 



On dead wood, also on the ground near trunks. 



Subcaespitose, almost inodorous. Stem stuffed (often hollow 

 when old), 8 in. long, equal, ferruginous-yellow, densely 

 covered with darker scales that are adpressed or with the 

 tips free ; even above the annular zone. A distinct ring is 

 not present. Pileus fleshy, convex, obtuse or gibbous, about 

 2 in. broad, viscid, brownish-ferruginous. Gills deeply 

 sinuate behind, emarginate, almost free, crowded, pale at 

 first, then dingy yellow ; spores ferruginous. (Fries.) 



With the habit and general appearance oi Pholiota squarrosa, 

 but known at once by the almost free gills. 



■ff Gills yellow, then pure ferruginous or tawny. 



Pholiota spectabilis. Fr. 



Pileus 3-5 in. across, compact, fleshy, convex then ex- 

 panded, dry, cuticle torn up into silky, fibrillose scales, 

 bright tawny-orange, becoming paler ; flesh firm, sulphur- 

 yellow ; stem 3-4 in. long, 1 in. and more at the thickest part, 

 ventricose below the middle, rather rooting, peronate, yellow 

 tinged with tawny up to the inferior, ample, persistent, 

 spreading ring, paler and mealy above ; gills adnato-decurrent, 

 crowded, rather narrow, yellow then ferruginous ; spores 

 elliptical, ferruginous, 9 x 4 /<,. 



Agaricus (Pholiota^ spectabilis. Fries, Elenoh., p. 28 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 145 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 352. 



On stumps. Subcaespitose. 



More or less densely caespitose, very compact, in dry 

 weather shining as if varnished, but not at all viscid. 

 Stem solid, firm, 3 in. and more long, 1 in. thick, more or less 



