The North American species of Pholiota, by Alexander H. Smith and L. R. Hesler.

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yellowish appressed fibrils, whitish above, base becoming dingy rusty
brown.
Spores (6) 7-8 (9) x 4-4.5 (5) /x, smooth, apical pore very minute,
slhape elliptic to subovate in face view, in profile elliptic to obscurely
inequilateral, rusty cinnamon to more ochraceous tawny in KOH, in
Melzer's more ochraceous, wall moderately thick (about 0.3,u).
Basidia 18-24 X 5-8 /,, rather obese to clavate, 4-spored, yellowish
in Melzer's reagent, hyaline to yellowish in KOH. Pleurocystidia abundant, 40-80 x 9-15 /u, subcylindric to narrowly fusoid-ventricose, apex
obtuse to capitate, smooth, wall slightly thickened (0.4-1 /L), content
ochraceous in KOH at least in neck but leaching out on standing, walls
liyaline to yellowish-hyaline in KOH and Melzer's, at times with refractive particles in neck near apex. Cheilocystidia similar to pleurocystidia
but smaller and varying to subfusoid, walls often thinner and apex
merely ol)tuse. Caulocystidia none.
Gill trama a central area of floccose subparallel hyphae flanked on
eitlher side by a gelatinous subhymenial layer of narrow (2 /L +~)
branched hypllae. Pileus cutis a thick gelatinous layer of narrow (3-5 p.)
pale ocllraceous (in KOH) lhvphae some having encrusting material,
loosely arranged in the matrix of slime; hypodermial region of broader
4-10 u hyph)lae rusty-brown in KOH and incrusted. Context hyplhae
smooth, thin-walled, interwoven, cells inflated to 15. +, walls ochraceous
to hyaline. All hypllae inamyloid. Clamp connections present.
HABIT, HABITAT, AND DISTRIBUTION: Gregarious on redwood sticks and
del)ris, Orick, Calif. Dec. 5, 1935. Smitl 3789, type.
OBSLRVATIONS: The outstanding features of this species are the
glutinous pileus with superficial squamules of veil remnants at first, the
rustv b)rown lisc and whitislh pileus margin, pale watery yellow flesh,
whlitisli to pale yellow gills wlen young, whitislh stipe apex and stipe
l)ase becoming rusty brown, the large pleurocystidia with slightly thickened walls, and medium sized spores. It is close to P. agglutinata especiallv in colors and cystidial features but the latter has spores 5.5-6.5 (7)
x 3.5-4 p. and grew on a mossy bank.
130. Pholiota alabamensis (Nlttii.) comb. nov.
Gymnopilus alabamensis Murrill, North Amer. Fl. 10: 199. 1917.
Illustrations: Text figs. 275; 276-278.
Pileus gregarious to subcespitose, 2-5 cm broad, convex to expanded,
slightly umbonate, pale brownish yellow, disc reddish brown, viscid,
margin entire. Context yellow, thin; taste mild.
Lamellae adnate, tawny-yellow, becoming darker, rather narrow,
subdistant to distant, edges entire and concolorous.
Stipe 5-10 cm long, 3-6 mm thick, yellow above, fulvous below,
glabrous, equal.
Spores 6-8.5 x 3.8-4.5 pu, elliptic or at times oblong-elliptic to sub