Pholiota aggericola (Peck) Sacc. 1887

Pholiota aggericola (Peck) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 5: 740. 1887
Agaricus aggericola Peck, Aim. Rep. N. Y. State Mus, 24: 67. 1872. Agaricus indecens Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 30: 40. 1878,
Pileus 1-5 cm. broad, convex becoming plane or sUghtly depressed, rarely slightly umbonate, at first brown or blackish-brown, drying out to ochraceous-tawny or buckthorn-brown, or slightly darker in herbarium plants, somewhat viscid when moist, glabrous, even or somewhat reticulate, slightly striatulate at times on the margin; lamellae adnate or slightly decurrent, mediimi-close or slightly distant, 2-4 mm. broad, pallid or grayish, becoming rusty-brown, ochraceous-tawny to cinnamon in dried plants ; veil forming a thin persistent, white, membranous, superior annulus; stipe central, equal, brownish below, white above the annulus, solid, pruinose above the annulus, fibrillose or glabrous below, or at times slightly squamulose at the base, 2.5-7 cm. long, 3-8 mm, thick; spores elongate-elliptic or elongateovoid, smooth, 11-15 X 5.5-7.5 ju; cystidia present, usually abundant, hyaline, 5-6 m broad, projecting 30-40 /x.
Type locality: Greig, New York.
Habitat: On the ground by roadsides and in woods.
Distribution: Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey.