Harper—Species of Pholiota and Stropharia. 1011 
SPECIES OF PHOLIOTA AND STROPHARIA IN THE 
REGION OF THE GREAT LAKES. 
Edward T. Harper. 
Collections made on Heebish Island, Mich, in the autumn of 
1911 have enabled us to add three plates to the photographs of 
species of Pholiota published in the Transactions of the Wis¬ 
consin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Vol. XVII, 
Part I, 470-502. We also give six plates of species of the 
closely related genus Stropharia found in this region with a 
synopsis of the genus and. the species reported from the United 
States. 
PHOLIOTA 
The Pholiota Togularis Croup. 
Pholiota blattaria Fr. Plate LIX 
Five plants of the Pholiota togularis group which seem to 
belong to this species were found growing by the side of drift- 
wood in sandy soil on the shore of St. Mary’s river and among 
chips near an old mill on Heebish Island, Mich., in October. 
Pileus thin, conic to broadly campanulate or subumbonate 
and expanded, smooth or slightly rugose, striatulate on the mar¬ 
gin, dark watery ferruginous, becoming paler in drying. La¬ 
mellae close, ventricose, rounded behind and very slightly at¬ 
tached to the stem, whitish, becoming rusty with spores, edge 
whitish and minutely denticulate. Stem equal or slightly en¬ 
larged below, fistulose, silky hbrillose below and white prui- 
