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Pholiota discolor, Pk. PI. LXI, B. 
The plants in Plate LXI B. grew on a poplar stump on Nee- 
bish Island, Mich., in October.. They showed the characteristic 
feature of Pholiota discolor, Pk. Pileus dark tawny brown, 
watery and viscid when moist becoming bright ochraceous yel¬ 
low when dry. In other respects the plants resembled Pholiota 
marginata. 
Peck's description of Pholiota discolor, 1ST. Y. state Mus. Bull. 
122, p. 156, is as follows: ‘"Pileus thin, convex, becoming 
nearly plane, or slightly depressed, glabrous, viscid, hygro- 
phanous, cinnamon rufous and striatulate on the margin when 
moist, bright ochraceous yellow when dry. Lamellae narrow, 
close, pallid or whitish, becoming ferruginous. Stem equal, 
hollow, fibrillose, whitish or pallid, sometimes with a white 
myeeloid tomentum at the base, the annulus distinct, persistent, 
spores elliptic 5x7^2**. 
Pileus 8—16 lines broad, stem 1.5—3 inches long, about one 
line thick. 
Single or caespitose, decaying wood and prostrate trunks of 
trees in woods, not rare, July to October.” 
Peck remarks that it is separated from Pholiota autumnalis 
by the viscid pileus. Our plants seem scarcely more than a 
form of Pholiota marginata or Pholiota unicolor. 
STROPIIARIA 
The genus Stropharia is small. Less than twenty-five species 
have been reported from the United States. The plants of the 
group are characterized by purple brown spores, adnate lamellae, 
a well developed annulus and no volva. The genus corresponds 
to Pholiota in the rusty spored series, Armillaria in the series 
with white spores and Anellaria among the agarics "with black 
spores. In the purple brown series it is distinguished from 
Agaricus by the adnate gills and from Hypholoma by the veil 
remaining as a well developed ring on the stem rather than 
clinging in fragments to the margin of the pileus. But the dis¬ 
tinctions are not well marked in all the species. It is especially 
