CORTINARIUS. 27 



firm, white. Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, 6-10 mm. (3-5 lin.) Inoloma. 

 thick, stuffed, sometimes hollow, hard, equal, pale, beautifully 

 variegated with saffron-red, adpressed, fibrillose scales, white at 

 the apex, sometimes continuously scarlet. Cortina fibrillose, 

 fugacious, saffron -red. Gills commonly decurrent, arcuate, 

 sometimes adnate, even emarginate, crowded, at first pale then 

 dark cinnamon. 



The stem varies straight, curved and elongated and flexuous. Very elegant. 

 Sometimes solitary, sometimes somewhat caespitose. 



In beech woods. Uncommon. Sept.-Nov. 



Name /SwAos, a clod ; dim. jSwAaptov ; /SuSAn/os, made of clay, i.e., of brick. 

 Perhaps in allusion to the red colour. When young like a red clod. Fr. 

 Monogr. ii. p. 54. Hym. Eur. p. 364. Berk. Out. p. 188. t. 19. f. i. C. Hbk. 

 n. 509. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 467. Grevillea, t. 79. Ag. Pers. Ic. Pict. t. 14. f. i. 



#*** GUIs or veil dark, fuscotts, olivaceous. 



53. C. pholideus Fr. Pileus 5-10 cent. (2-4 in.) broad, fawn- 

 colour, becoming pale, at length somewhat cinnamon, fleshy but 

 thin, convex then flattened, somewhat umbonate and depressed 

 round the umbo, scaly and squarrose with innate, piloso-fascicu- 

 late, crowded, fuscous-blackish fibres, which are fewer towards the 

 margin; flesh pallid. Stem 7.5-10 cent. (3-4 in.) long, 6-12 

 mm. (3-6 lin.) thick, solid, attenuated upwards (sometimes 

 shorter and clavato-bulbous), scaly as far as the somewhat 

 annular cortina with fibrillose, crowded, somewhat concentric, 

 fuliginous-black scales; above the universal cortina even and 

 pallid violaceous, furnished with a spider-web cortina (double 

 veiled). Gills somewhat emarginate, crowded, thin, 4-8 mm. 

 (2-4 lin.) broad, at first violaceous then clay-colour, at length 

 dark cinnamon with the spores. 



Very distinct and very beautiful ; readily recognised by the gills being at the 

 first violaceous, and by the pileus and stem being squarrose with fuliginous- 

 blackish scales. 



In woods. Frequent. Sept.-Oct. 



Spores subsphaeroid, 6-7x5-6 mk. K. Name <oAi? 3 a scale. Scaly. 

 Fr. Mo?wgr. ii. /. 55. Hym. Eur. p. 364. Berk. Out. p. 188. C. Hbk. n. 

 510. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 468. Ag. Alb. & Schw. t. 12. /. i. 



54. C. sublanatus Fr. Pileus 7.5-10 cent. (3-4 in.) broad, 

 fawn-colour, then becoming tan -fuscous, at length becoming 

 ferruginous, slightly fleshy, campanulate then expanded, um- 

 bonate, clothed with innate, floccose, fuscous sqtiamules; flesh 

 comparatively thin, whitish. Stem 7.5 cent. (3 in.) long, solid, 



