ring toward the
margin, golden orange color, flesh yellow.

The gills are adnexed, rounded near the stem, slightly decurrent,
crowded, narrow, yellow, then ferruginous.

The stem is solid, three to four inches high, quite thick, tough,
spongy, thickened toward the base, even, bulbous, somewhat rooting. Ring
inferior. I found the specimens in October and November. It may grow
earlier. Found on decayed oak stumps.

_Pholiota marginata. Batsch._

THE MARGINATE PHOLIOTA. EDIBLE.

[Illustration: Figure 215.--Pholiota marginata. Two-thirds natural size.
Caps honey-colored and tan-colored.]

Marginata means edged, margined; so called from the peripheral striae of
the pileus.

The pileus is rather fleshy, convex, then plane, smooth, moist, watery,
striate on the margin, honey-colored when moist, tan-colored when dry.

The gills are firmly attached to the stem, crowded, unequal; when
mature, of a dark reddish-brown from the shedding of the spores. Spores
7-8x4u.

The stem is cylindrical, smooth, hollow, of the same color as the
pileus, covered with a frost-like bloom above the ring, which is distant
from the apex of the stem and frequently disappears entirely.

It is quite common, being found on nearly every rotten log in our woods.
It comes early and lasts till late in the fall. The caps are excellent
when well prepared.

_Pholiota aegerita. Fr._

AEgerita is the Greek name for the black poplar; so called because it
grows on decayed poplar logs. The pileus is fleshy, convex, then plane,
more or less checked or rivulose, wrinkled, tawny, edge of the cap
rather pale.

The gills are adnate, with a decurrent tooth, rather close, pallid, then
growing darker.

The stem is stuffed, equal, silky-white, ring superior, fibrillose,
tumid. Spores 10x5u.

Found in October and November, in the woods wherever there are decayed
poplar logs.

_Pholiota squarrosoides. Pk._

LIKE THE SCALY PHOLIOTA. EDIBLE.

[Illustration: Figure 216.--Pholiota squarrosoides. Two-thirds natural
size. Caps yellow or yellowish.]

Squarrosoides means like Squarrosa. The pileus is quite firm, convex,
viscid, especially when moist; at first densely covered with erect
papillose or subspinose tawny scales, which soon separate from each
other, revealing the whitish or yellowish color of the cap and its
viscid character.

The gills are close, emarginate, at first whitish, then pallid or dull
cinnamon color.

The stem is equal, firm, st