C. autumna'lis Pk. Pileus fleshy, 

 convex or expanded, dull rusty-yel- 

 low, variegated or streaked with in- 

 nate rust-colored fibrils. Gills rather 

 broad, with a wide shallow emargina- 

 tion. Stem equal, solid, firm, bulb- 

 ous, a little paler than the pileus. 



Height 3-4 in., breadth of pileus 

 2-4 in. Stem 6 lines thick. 



Pine woods. Bethlehem. Novem- 

 ber. The plant is sometimes cespi- 

 tose. The flesh is white. Peck, 2$d 

 Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



Mt. Gretna, Pa. , 1 899. Mcllvaine. 



Quality fair. Caps meaty. 



Ochrosporae 

 (Plate LXXXVI&.) Cortinarius. 



CORTINARIUS AUTUMNALISo 



C. ochra'ceus Pk. (Plate LXXXII, fig. 3, p. 306.) Pileus fleshy, 

 convex, at length" broadly subumbonate or gibbous, smooth, even or 

 obscurely wrinkled, pale ochraceous. Stem solid, fibrillose, ochraceous 

 at the top, white below, gradually enlarged into a thick bulbous base. 



Height 2-4 in., breadth of pileus 2-3 in. Stem 4-6 lines thick at 

 the top, 12 1 8 lines at the base. 



Under balsam trees in open places. Catskill mountains. October. 



The stem appears as if sheathed. In some specimens the stem is 

 short and rapidly tapers from the base to the top. Peck, 23d Rep. 

 N. Y. State Bot. 



Many of the species were found by the writer in mixed woods among 

 leaves at Mt. Gretna, Pa., September, 1898, Specimens were identified 

 by Professor Peck. 



The gills are bright yellow when young. Cap smooth, innately 

 fibrillose, not viscid. Spores light brown. 



Tasteless ; smell faint. Good consistency. A fair flavor develops in 

 cooking. 



*** Gills yellow. 



C. (Inoloma) aimula'tus Pk. Pileus broadly convex, dry, villose- 

 squamulose, yellow. Flesk yellowish. Lamellae rather broad, subdis- 

 tant, adnexed, yellow. Stem solid, bulbous, somewhat peronate by the 



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