Pholiota aurevella. Batsch.
Golden Pholiota.
Aurevella is from auri-vellus, a golden fleece.
The pileus is two to three inches in diameter, bell-shaped, convex, gibbous, tawny-yellow, with darker scales, rather viscid.
The gills are crowded, notched behind, fixed, very broad, plane, pallid olive, at length ferruginous.
The stem is stuffed, nearly equal, hard, various in length, curved, with rusty adpressed squamules, ring rather distant. On trunks of trees in the fall, generally solitary. Not very common.
Pholiota curvipes. Fr.
Curvipes, with a curved foot or stem. Pileus is rather fleshy, convex, then expanded, torn into adpressed floccose scales.
The gills are adnate, broad, white, then yellowish, at length tawny.
The stem is somewhat hollow, thin, incurved (from which it derives its name), fibrillose, yellow, as well as is the floccose ring. Spores 6–7×3–4. Cooke.