492 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 
13. Type of Pholiota heteroclita. 
Pholiota heteroclita, Fr. Pis. XLVI and XLVII. 
ECCENTRIC STEMMED PHOLIOTA. 
A large, heavy, dull colored plant, often with an eccentric 
stem, growing on stumps and logs of deciduous trees. Our 
plants were deeply rooted in a crack on the top of a poplar 
stump at Frankfort, Michigan. They were fully mature. 
Hard, Mushrooms Edible and Otherwise, fig. 214, has published 
a photograph of young plants which shows the characteristic 
veil and annulus. 
Pileus whitish, covered with dirty yellow, or tawny fibrous 
scales, incurved when young, becoming convex and plane, mar¬ 
gin incurved, often irregular and cracked or split. Stem often 
eccentric, solid, bulbous at the base, rooting below the bulb, 
whitish fibrous below the annulus which is near the top of 
the stem, mealy above. Flesh thick, white. Lamellae broad, 
rounded at the stem, pallid becoming ferruginous brown. 
Spores rusty, 5—6x8—10 /l 
14. Type of Pholiota luteofolia. 
Pholiota luteofolia, Pk. Pl. XLVIII. 
YELLOW GILLED PHOLIOTA. 
We photographed some individual plants taken from a cluster 
which grew on a decayed log at Piver Forest, Ill., in June. The 
plants were fully mature and the pilei depressed showing the 
brilliant reddish yellow gills as the clusters stood erect on the 
top of the log attracting the attention at some distance. 
Peck’s description reads “Pileus fleshy, firm, convex (ours 
were depressed and moist from the wet weather), dry, squamu- 
lose, fibrillose on the margin, pale red or yellowish. Lamellae 
broad, subdistant, sinuate, serrate on the edge, yellow becoming 
bright ferruginous. Stem firm, fibrillose, solid, often curved 
from its place of growth. Annulus slight, fugacious. Spores 
bright ferruginous 4x7/*” (ours were 4—5x7— 8/a). 
