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squarrose scales. Lamellae adnate or slightly notched decur¬ 
rent, whitish becoming ferruginous. Stem straight or flexuous, 
colored and adorned like the pileus, white furfuraceous above 
the annulus. Spokes elliptical 4x7—8 y. 
There are a number of varieties of the scaly Pholiota. Plate 
XXXV, A shows two plants nearly typical. The pileus was dry 
with ragged tawny scales on a paler tawny background and 
Spores 4x7 /*. The plants were collected at Blue Mounds, 
Wis., in October. Other collections have still darker caps but 
the spores are usually smaller. 
Pholiota squarrosa, var. verruculosa, Lasch. PI. XXXV, B. 
The plants were collected at Frankfort, Mich., in August. The 
pilei were yellow with hard, sharp, verrucose, tawny scales. 
Pholiota squarrosoides, Pk. Pis. XXXVI and XXXVII. 
SHARP SCALE PHOLIOTA. 
Pholiota squarrosoides is described and figured in X. Y. State 
Mus. Bep’t 54, p. 183, pi. 73 and Pholiota squarrosa in Mus. 
Bull. 54 p. 971 and pi. 79. The former has the background of 
the pileus whitish and viscid instead of tawny and dry as in Pho¬ 
liota squarrosa, it has sharp instead of fiat scales and smaller 
spores, 3—4x5 n instead of 4—5x7—8 /*. The plants illus¬ 
trated in pis. XXXVI and XXXVII have these characteristics. 
They were collected on a well decayed log at Frankfort, Mich., 
in July. The log was covered with large handsome clusters. 
This form seems to be more common in our regions than Pholiota 
squarrosa but I have collected plants with white and tawny caps 
growing side by side. The color becomes darker with age and 
the viscidity depends much on the weather. Both spore meas¬ 
urements are reported by Stevenson, British Fungi I, p. 230. 
Dr. Peck has distinguished and figured the form on beech 
logs, Pholiota squarrosoides faginea, Pk., X. Y. State Mus. 
TRep^t 54, p. 183 and pi. 73. It is a smaller plant with more 
{scattered scales. He finds Pholiota squarrosoides on maple logs 
tand this form on beech. 
Note. Two more plants of the Pholiota squarrosa type are reported 
in this county. 
