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tograph is from part of a large cluster taken from the trunk of a 
maple tree at River Forest, Ills., in June. It is a much less 
trim plant than the Golden Fleece Pholiota and the colors are 
not nearly so bright. The two can easily be distinguished even 
from dried specimens. 
Pileus convex or expanded, broadly umbonate, dingy yellow 
with the scaly tufts of fibers brownish or blackish. Scales easily 
separable leaving the pileus smooth. Flesh thick, dull yellow. 
Lamellae slightly notched, dirty yellow becoming brown. 
Stem even or slightly thickened downward. Scaly below the 
annulus, furfuraceous above, yellowish with a tawny or brown 
base. Annulus the slight remains of the torn veil, soon disap¬ 
pearing. Spores rusty brown 5x8 p. 
Note. Two species reported from this country are said to be 
closely related to Pholiota adiposa. 
Pholiota limonella, Pk. N. Y. State Mus. Rep’t 31, p. 33. It grows 
in clusters on beech trunks and resembles Pholiota adiposa. The 
plants are about the size of Pholiota flammans but the spores are 
twice as large as in that species, 5—6x8— d/x. They ar’e lemon yellow 
with erect reddish brown scales on the pileus and stem. Morgan re- 
ports the plant from Ohio. 
Pholiota villosa, Fr. is a rare species in Europe. The plants are 
about the size of Pholiota adiposa with tawny yellow, floccose, flbrillose 
pilei and stems. It is reported in Farlow’s Index. 
9. Type of Pholiota flammans. 
Pholiota flammans, Fr. PI. XLI, C. 
YELLOW SCALE PHOLIOTA. 
This beautiful little plant differs from the others of the sec¬ 
tion Squarrosae in having the scales lighter colored than the 
background. The pileus is deep yellow or tawny and the 
scales sulphur yellow. It grows singly or in tufts on stumps 
and trunks. The one photographed grew on a stump at Xee- 
bish, Mich., in September. It is a small plant, the pileus less 
than two inches broad. 
Pileus thin, fleshy, convex to plane, slightly umbonate, dry, 
yellow or tawny with paler yellow scales. Flesh yellowish. 
