Harper—Species of Pholiota and Stropharia. 1013 
the ground in mixed woods attached to the roots of rotten 
stumps. 
Pileus convex or lenticular with the margin incurved, becom¬ 
ing plane, obtuse, covered with a tawny fibrous coat, tom into 
fibrous tufted squarrose scales, the lighter straw colored back¬ 
ground showing in the cracks, smoother and appressed scaly in 
wet weather, center darker and the fibrous coat less torn, mar¬ 
gin ragged but not striate. Lamellae broad, narrower toward 
the stem, adnate, whitish, becoming dark cinnamon, with a 
whitish minutely ragged edge. Stem even, solid, becoming 
stuffed or hollow, covered below the ring with white fibrous, 
tawny tipped, erect or reflexed scales, slightly floccose above the 
ring. Annulus membranous, broad, well defined, covered on 
the under side with a scaly coat like that on the pileus and 
stem, ragged on the edge, the upper surface striate with ridges 
where the veil tore from the gills. Flesh solid, white. 
Spores dark ferruginous brown 4—5x6—8 /l 
The plants agree very closely with the description of Pholiota 
fulvo-squamosa Pk. to which species we have referred them,* 
We did not notice the radish odor nor the change to brown when 
the flesh was cut and there was only a slight collar, shown by 
the gills remaining attached to each other when separated from 
the stem, but the marked agreement in size, shape, the tawny, 
scaly coat covering the whole plant, including the broad under 
surface of the annulus, the size of the spores and the habitat 
leave little doubt of the identity of the plants. The type speci- 
ments of Pholiota fulvo-squamosa were collected about the base 
of oak trees at Lansing, Mich., by B. O. Longyear. 
The identification was confirmed by Dr. Peck. 
The Pholiota Marginata Group. 
Pholiota marginata Batsch. PI. LXI, A. 
The plants illustrated in Plate LXI, A. were collected on dead 
alders in October. The margin of the pileus when expanded 
was deeply and coarsely striate. Otherwise they agreed exactly 
with the plants referred to Pholiota marginata in the Trans. 
Wis. Acad. Sci. XVII Plates LIY and LY. 
