Pholiota limonella (Pk.) Sacc. Cap 2.5-5cm across, convex or nearly flat, sometimes with an umbo; lemon yellow when fresh, scattered with hairy, tawny red, sub-erect scales; sticky. Gills sinuate-adnate, close, narrow; whitish becoming rust-red. Stem 30-10 X 3-5mm; pallid or yellowish with scattered recurved yellow scales; smooth above the ring. Veil forms a cottony evanescent yellow ring. Flesh thin; yellow. Odor mild. Taste mild. Spores ovoid to ellipsoid, smooth, distinct pore at apex, 6-7.5 x 4-5µ. Deposit rusty brown. Pleurocystidia and cheilocystidia present; caulocystidia rare. Habitat on fallen beech trunks. Found in New York and Idaho. Season September. Not edible.