AGARIC1NI. 



Phlegma- 

 cium. 



XL. Cortinarins (Phlegmaciitm) 



fulgens. One-third natural size. 



** Gills violaceous or purplish then cinnamon. 



*** Gills yellow, cinnamon, ferruginous (not at first whitish or violaceous). 



**** Gni s olivaceous. 



ft ScAURl (C. scaurus, club-footed). Bulb depressed or turbinate, mar- 

 ginate. Stem fleshy, fibrous, cortina commonly inferior, arising from the 



margin of the bulb. Pileus equally fleshy. 

 Gills somewhat sinuate. 



The margin of the bulb is a kind of cir- 

 cularly split volva. In many instances it 

 has been observed conjoined with the cover- 

 ing of the pileus, in others free and volva- 

 ceous. Hence the stem is never sheathed 

 with the universal veil, nor at the first, as in 

 the next group, extended, and scarcely ever 

 farinaceous or clothed at the apex, but like 

 group ** of Amanitas at first enclosed within 

 the pileus and bulb, which are applied to 

 each other like two small balls. The im- 

 pression on the bulb around the stem arises 

 from the margin of the pileus pressing upon 

 it at first. There are a few species which 

 are intermediate between Scaur i and Clidu- 

 chii, the pileus at first embracing the stem 

 to the very base, whence the bulb is nearly 

 wanting, but the base itself is marginate. 



* Gills whitish, then clay-coloured or pale 

 cinnamon. 



** Gills violaceous, dark blue, purplish, at length cinnamon. 



*** Gills ferruginous, tawny or yellow. 



**** Gills olivaceous. 



"t"rf ELASTIC!. Cortina simple, thin, fugacious, medial or inferior. Stem 

 at the first extended, somewhat thin, never marginato-bulbous or sheathed, 

 but rigid-elastic, externally somewhat cartilaginous, polished, shining, naked 

 at the apex, at length most frequently hollow. Pileus thin, often hygroph- 

 anous. 



* Gills whitish, then clay-coloured or dirty-cinnamon. 



** Gills violaceous, purplish, flesh-coloured. 



*** Gills pure ochre, tawny, or ferruginous. 



**** Gills olivaceous, fuliginous. 



t CLIDUCHII. 

 * Gills pallid then clay-coloured. 



1. C. triumphans Fr. Pileus 7.5-12.5 cent. (3-5 in.) broad, 

 yellow with a tinge of brown or ochraceous when moist, yellow 

 when dry, variegated at the disc with minute adpressed spot-like 

 scales or wholly naked, fleshy, not very thick, convexo-plane, ob- 

 tuse, regular, margin even, not bent inwards ; flesh alike of pileus 

 and stem compact, white. Stem 7.5-12.5 cent. (3-5 in.) long, 12 

 mm. (}4 in.) and more thick, solid, firm, attenuated from the 

 ovato-bulbous base, striate, yellowish-white, adorned with tawny 

 scales arranged in many circles (or rings) ; the partial cortina 

 superior, woven, somewhat ringed. Gills emarginate, crowded, 



