CORTINARIUS. 21 



low, soft, slightly attenuated upwards, smooth, viscid, white, com- Myxacium. 

 monly with reddish dots upwards. Cortina superior, fibrillose, 

 very fugacious. Gills adnato-decurrent, arcuate, 4 mm. (2 lin.) 

 broad, thin, crowded, quite entire, flesh-colour then clay, cin- 

 namon with the spores. 



Much smaller and thinner than C. delibutus, &c., and without any violet 

 colour. 



In woods. Coed Coch. 



Name illibatus, unimpaired, entire. Perhaps from the gills. Fr. Monogr. 

 ii. p. 42. Hym. Eur. p. 358. B. & Br. n. 1879. 



Gills at the first ochraceous or cinnamon. 



41. C. stillatitius Fr. Pileus scarcely 5 cent. (2 in.) broad, 

 slightly fleshy, convex then plane, somewhat umbonate, even, 

 smooth, clothed with azure-blue gluten, which is at first continu- 

 ous with that of the stem, fuscous-ttvid when the gluten separates 

 in the form of drops, and at length grey-white ; flesh soft, watery, 

 hygrophanous. Stem 5 scarcely 7.5 cent. (2, 3 in.) long, 6-8 mm. 

 (3-4 lin.) thick, hollow, very soft, wholly equally attenuated, at 

 first sheathed with thick azure-blue gluten which is extended into 

 the cortina, naked at the apex. Gills emarginate, scarcely 

 crowded, distant rather, 6 mm. (3 lin.) broad, dark cinnamon. 



Odour none. The gluten disappears with age. Rather allied to the Col- 

 liniti, but the veil is by no means floccose. The gills are almost those of C. 

 elatior. 



Among dead leaves. Uncommon. 



Pileus striate near the margin. Gills with a whitish ragged margin. W.G.S. 

 Spores sphaeroid-ellipsoid, uniguttate, yellowish, 8x6 mk. K. Name stillo, 

 to drip. Dripping. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 42. Hym. Eur. p. 358. C. Hbk. n. 

 503. S. Mycol. Scot. Supp. Scot. Nat. 1882, p. 216. Saund. 6 Sm. t. 3. 



42. C. pluvius Fr. Pileus 1-2.5 cent. ( l / 2 -i in.) broad, pale 

 yellow - tawny when moist, ochrey-tan and opaque when dry, 

 slightly fleshy, at first somewhat globose, then convex, commonly 

 gibbous, when more fully grown and moist slightly pellucid- 

 striate, hygrophanous, viscid and shining in rainy weather ; flesh 

 thin, of the same colour. Stem more or less elongated to as 

 much as 7.5 cent. (3 in.), 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) thick, at first 

 stuffed, then hollow, soft, equal or slightly attenuated upwards, 

 even, naked or obsoletely viscid with whiter silky spots. Cortina 

 white and entirely fibrillose, slightly covered over with slime, soon 

 fugacious. Gills adnexed, separating, ventricose, crowded, light 

 yellowish or at the first whitish, then ochraceous. 



