CORTINARIUS. 



In woods. Uncommon. Sept.-Nov. 



Name vtir/'its, changeable. />. Monogr. ii. p. 8. Hym. Enr. p. 338. 

 Berk. Out. p. 183. C. Hbk. n. 487. Ag. .SV/^. /. 42. 



6. C. cyanopus Fr. Pileus 6 cent. (2)4 in.) broad, at first 

 date-brown-livid, then tan and opaque, fleshy when unfolded, 

 flattened, obtuse, regular, viscid in rainy weather, in fine weather 

 dry opaque and even, smooth. Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, 

 12 mm. ( l / 2 in.) thick, solid, firm, ventricoso-bulbous, but always 

 immarginate, above the bulb attenuated upwards, naked (neither 

 fibrillose nor mealy) and white, violaceous above. Gills at first 

 adnate, then emarginate, broad (6-8 mm., 3-4 lin.), not much 

 crowded, in the same cluster intensely violaceous and pallid 

 bluish-grey, soon changing colour to cinnamon, edge unequal. 



The pileus when young is hemispherical, not embracing the bulb but the 

 apex of the stem, the cortina extending from the closely involute margin to 

 the apex of the stem. The stem when young is ovato-bulbous, when full 

 grown depressed and oblique (somewhat rhomboid) at the base, more than 

 2.5 cent, (i in.) thick, soft and spongy. The gills are less crowded than those 

 of its allies. The flesh of the stem in its earliest stage is dingy white, 

 variegated purple-violaceous above, that of the pileus dingy white, when full 

 grown wholly white. 



In woods. Frequent. Sept.-Nov. 



Spores 10x5 mk. IV. P. Name xvai/os, dark blue; TTOV?, afoot. From the 

 colour of the stem. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 9. Hym. Eur. p. 338. Berk. Ottt. p. 

 184. C. Hbk. n. 488. 5. Mycol. Scot. n. 449. Quel. Grev. t. 102. /. 2. A. 

 glaucopus Sow. t. 223. 



7. C. largus Fr. Pileus 10-15 cent. (4-6 in.) broad, commonly 

 date-brown-tawny, fleshy, compact at the broad disc, thin at the 

 circumference, convexo-flattened, very obtuse, slightly viscid on 

 the surface, adpressedly silky-fibrillose when dry, commonly 

 rivuloso-squamulose, sometimes fibrillose towards the margin; 

 flesh wholly fibrous, firm, whitisJi-bluish-grey, becoming white 

 when exposed to the air. Stem solid, sometimes shorter, slightly 

 bulbous, 6 cent. (2^ in-) long, commonly elongated, 10-12.5 

 cent. (4-5 in.) long, almost 2.5 cent, (i in.) thick and equal, often 

 curved and ascending, wholly fibrillose, the superior cortina 

 pendulous, above which the stem is pruinose, white tinted viola- 

 ceous; flesh same as that of pileus. Gills sometimes adnate, 

 sometimes emarginate, crowded, 12 mm. (}4 in.) broad, at first 

 bluish-grey-clay-colour, then cinnamon. 



Somewhat crespitose. The pileus when young is sometimes violet such as 

 is here and there observed round the margin of lull-grown specimens. When 

 bruised the stem is sometimes bloody. 



