Shaggy Scalycap

Hypodendrum floccosum (Schaeff.) Overholts
Agaricus floccosus Schaeff. Fung. Bavar. 4: Ind. 27. 1774. Agaricus squarrosus Pers. Syn. Fung. 268. 1801. Pholiota squarrosa Quel. Champ. Jura Vosg. 93. 1872.
Pileus 3-10 cm. broad, campanulate to convex or plane, yellowish or yellowish-brown, antimony-yellow to tawny in dried specimens, covered with recurved, tawny or yellowish scales, dry; context yellowish, with a mild taste; lamellae sinuate-adnate and often somewhat decurrent, medium-close, 3-6 mm. broad, pallid then ferruginous, in dried plants varying from honey-yellow to tawny-olive or tawny; veil forming a thick, persistent, noccose annulus often striate on the upper surface; stipe central, equal, pallid, yellow or brown, with recurved scales up to the annulus, solid, 5-12 cm. long, 5-12 mm. thick; spores oblong or ellipsoid, smooth, 6-8 X 3.5-4.5 fx; cystidia present, variable, of two general types: (a) hyaline, abundant, pointed at the apex, projecting, and (b) brown, blunt or truncate at the apex, mostly projecting, both types 25-35 X 7-14 m-
Type locality: Europe.
Habitat: On dead trunks or stumps of various trees, both deciduous and evergreen.
Distribution: Maine to District of Columbia, and westward to Michigan and Colorado; also in Europe.