Harper—Species of Pholiota of the Great Lakes Region. 491 
The thick matted veil covers the whole plant when young. It 
tears apart at the separation of the pileus from the stem and 
leaves the stem peronate and the margin of the pileus covered 
with bunches of fibers. The pileus is scaly but not squarrose. 
Pilecjs fleshy, compact, hemispherical, becoming nearly plane, 
dry, silky fibrillose, yellow to tawny orange. Flesh thick, pale 
yellow, bitter. Lamellae dose, narrow, adnate or slightly 
decurrent, yellow becoming ferruginous. Stem ventricose or 
thickened below, solid, peronate, mealy above the annulus, fib¬ 
rillose like the pileus below. Spores elliptic, ochraceous, 5— 
6x8—9 [i. 
Fries, leones 102, gives a good illustration of our plant. 
Note. Pholiota aurea, Matt., which is the type of the genus and 
its most gorgeous species, is closely related to Pholiota spectabilis. 
It grows on the ground. The plant is reported from this country in 
Farlow’s Index but we have never seen it. 
12. Type of Pholiota comosa. 
Pholiota comosa, Fr. PI. XLY. 
HAIRY PHOLIOTA. 
A firm fleshy species growing on trunks and stumps of de¬ 
ciduous trees. The pictures are from plants collected at Frank¬ 
fort, Mich., in August and at River Forest, Ill., in October. 
Pileus firm, convex, obtuse, viscid, covered with white hairy 
fibrous easily separable scales on a tawny ground. Flesh 
white. Lamellae broad, adnexed decurrent, white becoming 
argillaceous or reddish brown. Stem somewhat bulbous with 
an abrupt pointed root becoming long and curved, white fibrous 
striate with the characteristic slight annulus of the section. 
Spores rusty brown 5—6x8—9/*. 
Note. Pholiota destruens, Broud. is reported from Missouri by 
Glatfelter and dried specimens in the herbarium at Madison seem to 
be referable to this species. The pileus is yellowish white with a few 
floccose scales and a fibrillose margin. The stem is concolorous and 
thickened below. The lamellae are pallid becoming cinnamon. 
