Pholiota cerasina Peck 1908

Pholiota cerasina (Peck) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 5: 744. 1887
Agaricus cerasinus ,Ve.ck, Bull. Buffalo Soc, Nat. Sci. 1: 50. 1873.
Plants cespitose, 5-12 cm. broad, convex to plane, cinnamon-colored to tawny, perhaps
lighter at times, somewhat hygrophanous, glabrous or nearly so, even on the margin; context
fleshy, rather thin, with a bitter taste and an amygdaline odor that is best noticed in young
plants; lamellae medium-close or slightly distant, sinuate to adnate or slightly decurrent,
yellow, becoming cinnamon or ferruginous, finally pruinose from the spores, 5-12 mm. broad;
veil present, forming an early evanescent spore-stained annulus; stipe central or more often
excentric, equal or enlarged below, concolorous with the pileus, fibrillose at least at the apex,
solid or stuffed, 5-15 cm. long, 5-12 mm. thick; spores elliptic to ovoid, slightly roughened,
brown, 6-9 X 4.5-5.5 ju; cystidia none.
Type locality : Sterling, New York. Habitat: On dead wood of deciduous trees. Distribution: Maine, Vermont, and New York.