CORTINARIUS. 



ff DELIBUTI (C. delibiitus, besmeared). Veil entirely viscid, hence the Myxacium. 

 stem is not floccoso-peronate but only viscid, acquiring a varnished appear- 

 ance when dry. 



e Gills whitish, then clay-coloured. 



t Gills at first violaceous, dark blue, or reddish. 

 *** Gills at first ochraceous or cinnamon. 



t COLLINITI. 



32. C. arvinaceus Fr. Pileus 7.5-10 cent. (3-4 in.) broad, 

 orange-tawny, fleshy, soft, convex then soon flattened, at length 

 reflexed and undulated, even, smooth, 

 viscous (not glutinous), glistening 

 when dry, margin slightly striate 

 when in full vigour. Stem tall, as 

 much as 20 cent. (8 in.) long, 12 

 mm. (y z in.) thick, solid, equal, silky- 

 viscous, never broken up into scales, 

 white. Cortina soon fibrillose and fu- 

 gacious. Gills adnato-decurrent, very 

 broad (12-18 mm., ]&-% in.), even at 

 the sides, somewhat distant, crenu- 

 Jated at tJie edge, at first straw-colour 

 then brigJit ochraceous. 



Spores plentiful, of the same colour as 

 the gills. Cortina not in the form of a ring. 

 Perhaps too nearly allied to C. collinitiis. 



In beech woods. 

 Bristol. Oct. 



Blaize Castle, 



XLI. Cortinarius (Myxacimii) 

 collinitns. One - fifth natural 

 size. 



Name aruina, grease. Greasy, viscid. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 36. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 354. Grevillea, vol. xii. p. 42. Bucknall, Brist. Nat. Soc. Proc. 

 vol. iv. t. 5./. i. Ag. Krombh. t. 73. f. 16-18. 



33. C. collinitus Fr. Pileus orange-tawny, fleshy, not com- 

 pact, convex with the margin bent inwards then expanded, 

 obtuse, clothed with a thick cuticle, which in wet weather swells 

 into persistent orange-tawny gluten, shining when dry, margin 

 even. Stem solid, firm, elongated, exactly cylindrical, at length 

 soft, for the most part covered over with z.floccose and glutinous 

 veil, which is commonly broken ttp into concentric scales; near 

 the apex the gluten is continuous with the glutinous cuticle of 

 the pileus and forms an entirely viscous fugacious ring, colour 

 variable, violaceous, white, even yellowish. Gills adnate, some- 

 what crowded, whitish-bluish-grey or clay-colour then cinnamon. 



There are numerous forms departing from the type : b) pileus repand, stem 

 inclining to fuscous: Batsch f. 197. c) small, pileus pallid yellow or straw- 



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