Mt. Gretna, Pa. October until after frost. About trees and stumps and on logs. McIlvaine.
P. adiposa yields a substantial substance of good flavor.
P. flam´mans Fr.—flamma, flame. Pileus 2–4 in. broad, yellow-tawny, fleshy, convex then plane, somewhat umbonate, absolutely dry, sprinkled with superficial, pilose, somewhat concentric, paler or sulphur-yellow, rough or curly scales; margin at first inflexed, then spread when larger. Flesh thin, light yellow. Stem 3 in. long, 2–3 lines thick, stuffed then hollow, equal, most frequently flexuous, very light yellow as are also the crowded rough scales. Ring membranaceous, entire, not far removed from the pileus, of the same color. Gills adnate and without a tooth, somewhat thin, crowded, at the first bright sulphur-yellow, at length rust-color, edge quite entire.
Pileus by no means hygrophanous. It is distinguished from all others by the sulphur-yellow scales on the tawny pileus. Forming small clusters. Inodorous. The ring is sometimes only indicated by an annular zone. Fries.
Spores ellipsoid, 4×2µ K.; ellipsoid, 3–4×2–2.5µ C.B.P.; 4×2µ W.P.; 8×4µ Massee.
Quite plentiful in the New Jersey pines, from October until after heavy frosts. Caps seldom over 3 in. across. Solitary, and in clusters of not over half a dozen.
The caps fried are delicious.
P. luteofo´lia Pk.—luteus, yellow; folium, a leaf. Pileus firm, convex, dry, scaly, fibrillose on the margin, pale-red or yellowish. Lamellæ broad, subdistant, emarginate, serrate on the edge, yellow, becoming bright rust-color. Stem firm, fibrillose, solid, colored like the pileus, often curved from the place of growth. Ring obsolete. Spores bright rust-color, 7×4µ.
Plant subcespitose, 2–3 in. high. Pileus 1–2 in. broad. Stem 3–5 lines thick.
Trunks of birch trees. Forestburgh. September.