Harper—Species of Pholiota of the Great Lakes Legion. 497 
the pileus. Spores elliptic or obovate 5—6x8—10/x. (Sylloge 
gives 3-4x6-7/* or 4-6x10-14^.) 
Hote. A number of small species of Pholiota with hygrophanous 
pilei growing on decayed logs have been reported from this country. 
Pholiota mutahilis, Schaeff. Somewhat larger than Pholiota mar- 
ginata with the stem covered with squarrose scales. Morgan and Hard 
report it from Ohio. 
Pholiota unicolor, FI. Dan. Similar to Pholiota marginata but 
smaller and lamellae decurrent. Reported from Ohio by Morgan and 
Hard. 
Pholiota marginella, Pk. Mus. Bull., 122, pp. 157-158. It is dis¬ 
tinguished from Pholiota marginata by “its even fibrillose margin, 
adnexed lamellae and paler uniformly colored stem.” 
Pholiota autumnalis, Pk. N. Y. State Mus. Rep’t 23, p. 92 (as 
Naucoria) and Mus. Bull. 122, p. 156. Glatfelter reports it from St. 
Louis with the remark “It appears to me the same as Pholiota margi¬ 
nata.” 
Pholiota discolor, Pk., N. Y. State Mus. Rep’t 25, p. 78, is char¬ 
acterized by the change of color from cinnamon rufus when moist to 
bright ochraceous yellow when dry. Otherwise like Pholiota marginata. 
19. Type of Pholiota confragosa. 
Pholiota confragosa, Fr. PI. XLI, D. E. 
The plants grew on a log at Xeebish, Mich., in September. 
The enlargement, PI. XLI, E, shows the peculiar white floccose 
covering of the pileus. It is different from that of any other 
species of Pholiota. The plants were brick red but a little 
duller than in the illustration in Fries, Icon, 105. Otherwise 
the illustration represents our plants well. The plants photo¬ 
graphed are young and smaller than the average. 
Pileus convex becoming plane, obtuse, ground color almost 
brick red, covered with a white fiocculose coat easily rubbed off 
and which disappears when the plants become old, margin 
slightly striate when moist. Lamellae adnate, narrow, edge 
eroded. Stem equal, straight or slightly flexuous, ground color 
similar to the pileus, peronate with a fibrous scaly white coat 
which terminates in a spreading membranous white ring. 
Spores rusty 5-6x7 -8/a. 
