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simple, rather brittle but firm, soon hollow, smooth, glabrous, 
ochraceous to luteous, becoming somewhat darker at the apex 
with age ; spores copious, ovoid, smooth, hyaline, 7-9 X 5-5-6-5 /a. 
This pretty, yellow species grows in attractive clumps by road- 
sides in woods throughout the eastern United States and Europe. 
The plant is edible, with an excellent flavor, but is rarely found in 
sufficient quantity for food. The specimens figured are smaller 
than those usually seen. 
Pholiota Johnsoniana (Peck) Sacc. 
Johnson’s Pholiota 
P late 163. Figure 10. X i 
' Pileus soft, fleshy, convex to plane, gregarious, 6-8 cm. or 
"more broad; surface smooth, moist, stramineous or cremeous to 
melleous-ochraceous, usually glabrous, rarely slightly squamu- 
lose, margin thin, pallid, striatulate at times when moist; context 
white, thick at the center, readily devoured by insects, the taste 
mild but not pleasant ; lamellae adnate to adnexed, close, rather 
narrow, pale-purplish, becoming more fulvous as the spores 
mature; spores ovoid or ellipsoid, smooth, fulvous, 4.5 X 3-5/^; 
stipe equal, cylindric, white to straw-yellow, solid, slightly striate 
at the apex, often floccose-scaly below the annulus, 5-12 cm. long, 
about I cm. thick ; annulus median or situated slightly above the 
middle, thick, white, sometimes stellate below when young, per- 
sistent but rather easily broken. 
Peck described and figured this species in 1872 from specimens 
collected by Hon. A. S. Johnson at Knowersville, New York, in 
September. Atkinson found it at Blowing Rock, North Carolina, 
.and photographed some rather large specimens of it. I have 
collected it in the New York Botanical Garden several times in 
considerable quantity and Earle got it at Mt. Vernon, New York, 
a few miles north of here. The species appears in September or 
October, usually in woods or wood borders, and always on rich 
soil. It has somewhat the appearance of Stropharia bilamellata, 
but the lamellae, although purplish when young, are much lighter 
at maturity than in that species. The annulus is thick and some- 
times stellate below in the young stages as in Agaricus arvensis. 
New York Botanical Garden. 
