Harper—Species of Pholiota of the Great Lakes Region. 485 
plants agree exactly with the description of Pholiota angustipes 
except that the spores are a little smaller, 4x6—7 /*. 
Pileus fleshy, hemispheric, becoming convex or nearly plane, 
slightly viscid when moist, squamnlose with minute, dot like 
appressed scales, brown or grayish brown becoming alutaceous 
brown or sub alutaceous, P'lesh whitish, taste unpleasant. La¬ 
mellae thin, close, sinuate, whitish or creamy yellow, becoming 
tawny brown. Stem equal or tapering downward, flexuous, 
stuffed or hollow, squamose, whitish or cinereous, Spores navi- 
culoid, 4—5x7—8 /*. 
Note. Two species of Pholiota which grow on the ground but do 
not appear to be very closely related to any of th§ above types have 
been reported from the United States. 
Pholiota speciosa, Clements, University of Nebr. Bot. Sur. 1893, II,. 
p. 41, is said by the author to resemble Pholiota gibberosa, Fr. It 
is about two inches high and broad, has a sordid white pileus and 
white stem, smoky gills and umber spores 3.5x5/i. 
Pholiota rubecula , Bann. & Pk. N. Y. State Mus. Rep’t 44, p. 70, is 
not fully described. 
B. Growing on wood. 
I. Pileus and stem covered with squarrose or squamose 
scales. 
The plants are clothed with a universal fibrous veil which 
forms squarrose or squamose tufts of fibers on the pileus and 
stem. When the margin of the pileus separates from the stem 
the veil tears apart leaving a floccose ring on the stem and the 
margin of the pileus ragged. 
7. Type of Pholiota squarrosa. 
Pholiota squarrosa, Muell. PI. XXXV, A. 
SCALY PHOLIOTA. 
One of the most common and best known of the species of 
Pholiota. It grows in dense clusters on standing trunks, stumps 
and logs in woods. It sometimes lias a very disagreeable odor. 
Pileus fleshy, broadly conic or campanulate to convex, dry, 
background yellowish or tawny covered with darker tawny- 
