Pholiota marginella Peck 1898

Pholiota marginella Peck, Ann. Rep N. Y. State Mus. 51: 289. 1898.
Pileus 1-4 cm. broad, convex becoming nearly plane, buckthorn-brown or yellowish-red when young or moist, whitish or yellowish-buff when dry, warm-buff or cmnamon-buff in dried plants, hygrophanous or at times subviscid, glabrous, striatulate on the margin when young, and slightly silky with whitish fibrils; lamellae smuate-adnexed 'or smuate-uncinate,* easily separating, medium-close, 1-4 mm. broad, minutely eroded on the edges, whitish becoming dark-ferruginous; veil forrfiing a slight or welldeveloped fugacious annulus; stipe central, equal, fibrillose below, pruinose above the annulus, stuffed or hollow, whitish or pallid, sometimes with a white tomentum at the base, 3-10 cm. long, 1-6 mm. thick; spores ellipsoid or ovoid, smooth, slightly truncate at one end, brown, 6-8 (-9) X 3.5-4,5 fx cystidia none.
Type locai.ity: North Elba, New York.
Habitat: Decaying wood or on sawdust piles.
Distribution: New Hampshire to New Jersey, and westward to the Pacific coast.