Harper—Species of Pholiota of the Great Lakes Region. 487 
Pholiota subsquarrosa , Fr. Mcllvaine. One thousand American 
Fungi, p. 275. The plants have a viscid pileus and appressed scales. 
The gills are yellow when young. The species is figured by Fries 
leones, 103. 
Pholiota dactyliota , B. & Mont, is a little known species described 
from plants collected by Sullivant in Ohio. It is said to be so similar 
to Pholiota squarrosa as scarcely to need a description. The only 
differences are that the annulus is thick and persistent and the gills 
nearly free. 
8. Type of Pholiota aurivella. 
Pholiota aurivella, Batsch. Pis. XXXVIII and XXXIX. 
GOLDEN FLEECE PHOLIOTA. 
A very showy plant growing singly or in clusters of few indi¬ 
viduals on trunks, stumps and logs. The illustrations are from 
plants found on a well decayed bass wood log at River Forest, 
Ills., in October, also collected in Colorado and elsewhere. Very 
similar to the following species as Cooke’s Illustrations pis. 351 
and 353 well show, but much more handsome. Stevenson re¬ 
marks “Very beautiful. More refined in appearance than any 
of its allies.” 
Pileus broadly convex, gibbous, splitting on the margin, 
slightly viscid when moist, smooth and almost glassy when dry, 
bright tawny yellow or orange, scattered over with tufts of dark 
tawny fibers, appressed with squarrose points. Lamellae ven- 
tricose, adnexed with a small sinus, whitish or yellowish becom¬ 
ing rusty brown with spores. Stem even, or somewhat fusi¬ 
form, solid, curved to match the position of the plant, lighter 
yellow than the pileus, very smooth and polished above the an¬ 
nulus, shreddy and tawny scaly below. Annulus slight, formed 
by the torn margin of the veil. Spokes rusty brown. 4—6x8—* 
9 n. 
Pholiota adiposa, Fr. PI. XL. 
FAT PHOLIOTA. 
The Fat Pholiota is much more common than the preceding 
and forms large clusters on trunks, stumps and logs. The pho- 
