Harper—Species of Pholiota of the Great Lakes Region. 493 
Note. Pholiota fulvosquamosa, Pk., Torr. Bull. 30 pp. 95-96, be¬ 
longs in the section Squamosae. The plants on which the species is 
founded were collected about the base of oak trees near the Agricul¬ 
tural College at Lansing, Michigan. The pileus is 6-12 cm broad, 
the stem is 5-8 cm. long, and 8-10 mm. thick. The pileus, the stem 
and the under side of the annulus are covered with tawny fibrillose 
scales. The lamellae are attached to a narrow collar, whitish becom¬ 
ing pinkish cinnamon. 
II. Pileus naked, sometimes rimose rivulose. 
15. Type of Plioliota aegerita. 
Pholiota aegerita, Brigant. PL XLIX. 
The plants photographed were not very satisfactory and the 
pictures are poor. They grew on a poplar trunk at Xeebish, 
Mich. The dried specimens are characteristic. The pileus is 
inrolled, hard, cracked into tawny areas on a whitish back¬ 
ground, smoother and whitish toward the margin. The stem 
tapers upward and is brownish at the base. 
Pileus fleshy, convex to plane, rivulose with tawny scales in 
the center, smoothish and white or pallid toward the margin, 
with slight greenish tints. Lamellae adnate toothed, pallid 
becoming reddish brick color. Stem equal or tapering upward, 
solid or stuffed, whitish with silky, brownish or reddish fibers. 
Amulus superior, fibrous. Spoees 5x7^ (Sacc. Sylloge, 
5x8— 9a). 
16. Type of Pholiota lutea. 
Plioliota lutea, Pk. PI. L. 
YELLOW PHOLIOTA. 
The plants referred to this species were very abundant and 
grew in large clusters on the trunks and roots of black birch at 
Spring Green and The Dells, Wis., during September and Octo¬ 
ber, 1910. The mature pilei were broadly conical or campanu- 
late, buff yellow, nearly smooth, wavy, somewhat scaly and 
striate on the edge. The stem was brown or ferruginous toward 
