Agaricaceae 



Cortinarius. covered with a dense layer of gluten, but opaque when dry, bay or red- 

 dish then tawny-olivaceous, spotted; often depressed round the margin, 

 which is at first incurved then wavy, marked with a raised brown line. 

 Flesh entirely clear blue. Gills broadly emarginate, 3 lines and more 

 broad, crowded, bluish-tan, then cinnamon, violet-purple when bruised. 

 Stem about 3 in. long, % in. and more thick, solid, bulbous, every- 

 where fibrillose, intensely pallid clear blue, very compact, juicy, becom- 

 ing purplish-blue when touched, bulb submarginate. Spores elliptical, 

 io-i2x5-6/A Fries. 



Var. snbpnrpuras'cens. Massachusetts. Frost. 



Plentiful in West Virginia mountains in mixed woods, 1882. On 

 South Valley Hill, near Downington, Pa., October, 1887. Haddon- 

 field, N. J., 1892. In woods. September to frost. Mcllvaine. 



Both stems and caps are juicy when young and of agreeable flavor. 

 It is among the best edible species of Cortinarius. 



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Gills brownish-white i then ferruginous. 



C. turbina'tus Fr. turbo, a top. Pileus unicolorous, dingy-yellow 

 or green, becoming pale, hygrophanous, opaque when dry, fleshy, con- 

 vex then flattened, obtuse, at length depressed, orbicular, even, smooth, 

 viscid. Flesh soft, white. Stem commonly curt, 2 in., but varying 

 elongated, yellowish, springing from a globoso-depressed distinctly mar- 

 ginate bulb, otherwise equal, cylindrical, stuffed then hollow. Gills 

 attenuato-adnate, thin, crowded, broad, quite entire, at first pallid light- 

 yellowish, at length somewhat ferruginous. 



The typical form is regular, distinct from its allies in the hygrophan- 

 ous pileus, in the gills being isabelline- ferruginous and quite entire, and 

 in being without any dark-purple or purple color. Easily distinguished 

 by its turbinate bulb. Fries. 



In woods. Uncommon. Stevenson. 



Spores rough, 14-16x7)".; rough, Cooke. 



Cap 2-4 in. across. Stem commonly about 2 in. long, sometimes 

 longer. Massce. 



North Carolina, ScJiweinitz ; Pennsylvania, Schweinitz ; Massachu- 

 setts, Frost; Minnesota; Nova Scotia. 



Edible. Cooke. 



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