Found in October and November, in the woods wherever there are decayed poplar logs.
Pholiota squarrosoides. Pk.
Like the Scaly Pholiota. Edible.
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, stuffed, rough, with thick squarrose scales, white above the thick floccose annulus, pallid or tawny below. The spores are minute, elliptical, .0002 inch long, .00015 inch broad.