Pholiota highlandensis (Peck) Quadr. & Lunghini 1990

Gymnopilus carbonarius (Fries) Murrill, Mycologia 4: 256
1912.
Agaricus carbonarius Fries, Obs. Myc. 2: 33. 1818. Flammula carbonaria Quel. Champ. Jura Vosg. 232. 1872.
Pileus convex to subplane, gregarious to subcespitose, 2-4 cm. broad; surface viscid, smooth, glabrous, testaceous-isabelline or varying from lighter yellow to orange or testaceous; margin inflexed when young, with a slight, stramineous, filamentous, evanescent veil; context thin, white or stramineous, the taste sweetish, the odor pleasant; lamellae squarely adnate or with a short decurrent tooth, plane or arcuate, broad, crowded, inserted, pale-yellow to fulvous; spores ellipsoid, smooth, fulvous in mass, 7-8 X 3-4.5 p; cystidia abundant, 22-28 X 10-12 fx stipe equal or slightly enlarged above, hollow or stuffed, white or cremeous, adorned below with reddish-brown fibrils, glabrous or granulose at the apex, about 5 cm. long, 2-4 mm. thick.
Type) locality: Europe.
Habitat: Usually in charred ground or on wood partly burned.
Distribution: Throughout temperate North America; southern Florida and the mountains of Jamaica; also in Europe.

Gymnopilus highlandensis (Peck) Murrill
Agaricus highlandensis Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 24: 67. 1872.
Agaricus ascophorus Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 24: 68. 1872.
Naucoria highlandensis Sacc. Syll. Fung. 5: 845. 1887.
Flammula highlandensis Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 50: 138. 1897.
Naucoria subvelosa Murrill, Mycologia 4: 164. 1912.
Hebeloma Peckii House, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 179: 27. 1915.
Pileus fleshy, thin, hemispheric or convex, becoming nearly plane, 1.2-2.4 cm. broad; surface glabrous, viscid, yellowish-red, commonly paler or yellowish on the margin, which is inflexed; context white or whitish, sometimes tinged with yellow under the tough, separable cuticle; lamellae crowded, rounded behind or adnate, sometimes with a decurrent tooth, pallid or yellowish when young, becoming ferruginous; spores ellipsoid, 6-8 X 3-5 juJ stipe equal, stuffed or hollow, fibrillose and minutely floccose-squamulose, yellowish, 2.5-5 cm. long, 2-4 mm. thick.
Type locality : Near Highland Falls, New York.
Habitat: On burnt ground or damp earth.
Distribution: New England to New Jersey and west to Michigan.