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the base and had a well defined annulus. The spores were 
5x8—9/x. The plants ar© very closely related to Flammula al- 
nicola and may belong to that species, but they differ very de¬ 
cidedly in the shape and color of the pileus and the evident an¬ 
nulus from the forms of Flammula alnicola collected in north¬ 
ern Michigan. The shape of the pileus and the dark base of 
the stems which are sometimes hollow do not agree with the 
description of Pholiota lutea. Glatfelter has reported Pholiota 
lutea from Missouri. Peck’s description is as follows: 
“Pileus fleshy, firm, convex, dry, slightly silky and some¬ 
times minutely floccos© squamulose in the center, buff yellow, 
often a little darker in the center, the thin incurved margin 
slightly surpassing the lamellae. Flesh pale yellow. Odor 
pleasant. Taste bitter. Lamellae thin, close, rounded behind, 
adnexed, pale yellow, becoming dark ferruginous. Stem firm, 
solid, thickened at the base, fibril l ose, colored like the pileus. 
Annulus superior, slight, fugacious. Spores ferruginous 
5x8/*. Pileus 2-4 inches broad; stem 2-3 inches long, 3-5 lines 
thick. Decaying wood and trunks of trees in woods.” 
Note. The following species, reported from this country, appear to 
belong in this section. 
Pholiota ornella, Pk. is a small plant found growing on decayed 
wood or sawdust. Pileus dark red when young fading to pink and 
then yellowish brown, appressed scaly, veil annulate appendiculate. 
Its history is given in N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 122, p. 151. It was first 
described as a Hypholoma. 
Pholiota aeruginosa, Pk. is a plant with a greenish pileus and stem, 
less than two inches broad and one and one-half inches high. Distin¬ 
guished from Stropharia aeruginosa by its solid stem, dry pileus and 
bright ferruginous spores. The type specimens were found by Dr. 
Herbst growing in clusters on oak railroad ties in Pennsylvania. N. Y. 
State Mus. Rep’t 43, p. 81. The plant is also reported from Connecti¬ 
cut, White, and Michigan, Longyear. 
Pholiota capistrata, Cke is reported in Farlow’s Index. It is figured 
in Cooke, Illust. 364. A large subcaespitose plant with a viscid livid 
pileus, a subsquamulose stem and persistent annulus, growing on frag¬ 
ments of wood. 
Pholiota rad&cosa, Bull, is also reported in Farlow’s Index. It is a 
large plant with smooth pileus, squarrose scaly stem and a long root. 
It appears to grow on the ground though placed among the Truncigenae 
in Sylloge. 
