490 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters . 
Pholiota albo-crenulata, Pk. Pis. XLII and XLIII. 
WHITE GRANULATED PHOLIOTA. 
Single or two or three together on stumps and logs especially 
maple. The photographs are from plants found on a maple 
stump at Frankfort, Mich. The characteristic features of the 
plant are the dark brown color, easily recognized even in dried 
specimens and the white granules on the margin of the gills. 
The species is very closely related to Pholiota fusca, Quel, 
and may prove to be identical with it. Plants in the Madison 
herbarium were so referred by Bresadola and the description 
of the gills of that species as “white granulate” on the edge is 
better for our plants than “white crenulate.” But both the 
description and figure of Pholiota fusca show that it is strik¬ 
ingly mammillate and it is said to be caespitose. We have seen 
no American plants with these characteristics. 
Pileus, fleshy, convex or with a smlall umbo, viscid, yellowish 
brown with dark brown floccose scales which easily rub off. 
Stem slightly tapering upward, stuffed or hollow, covered up to 
the annulus with dark brown tufts of fibers on a light colored 
background. White furfuraceous above the annulus which has 
the form characteristic of this group. Lamellae with a pecu¬ 
liar appearance, those reaching the margin narrowing toward 
the stem and those attached to the stem narrowing toward the 
margin, edge eroded and beaded with white granules, grayish 
becoming rusty brown. Spores, rusty brown, 6—7x10—12^. 
The plant is reported from Michigan by Kauffman. 
11. Type of Pholiota spectabilis. 
Pholiota spectabilis, Fr. PL XLIV. 
SHOWY PHOLIOTA. 
The whole plant including the flesh is some shade of bright 
yellow or orange and retains its color when dry. The plants 
photographed were collected at Xeebish, Mich., in September. 
They are young but show the characteristics of the plant well. 
