West Virginia, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, May to August. On rich ground, lawns, gardens, etc. McIlvaine.
Coming as it does in early spring, it is a prized species wherever found.
The caps only are good.
B. Truncigeni. On wood.
Pholiota squarrosa.
One-half natural size.
P. squarro´sa Mull.—squarrosus, scurfy. (Plate [LXXI], fig. 3, page 268.) Pileus 3–5 in. broad, saffron-rust-color, scaly with innate, crowded, revolute, darker (becoming dingy brown), persistent scales, fleshy, convex bell-shaped then flattened, commonly obtusely umbonate or gibbous, dry. Flesh light-yellow, compact when young, sometimes thin. Stems curt when young, as much as 8 in. long when full-grown, as much as 1 in. thick at the apex, remarkably attenuated downwards, stuffed, scaly as far as the ring with crowded, revolute, darker scales. Ring only slightly distant from the apex, rarely membranaceous, entire or often slashed, generally floccoso-radiate, of the same color as the scales. Gills adnate with a decurrent tooth, crowded, narrow, pallid-olivaceous then rust-color.
Spores ferruginous. Very cespitose, forming large heaps. Stems commonly cohering at the base, varying very much in stature in the same cluster; varying also much thinner, scarcely ever curved-ascending. Odor heavy, stinking; sometimes, however, obsolete. Stevenson.