Agaricaceae 



Cortinarius. flexuous, with fibrils of the same color, almost darker than the pileus, 

 Cortina arachnoid, fugacious, red blood-color. Gills adnate, crowded, 

 2-3 lines broad, quite entire, dark blood-color. 



Wholly dark blood-color, the stem when compressed pouring forth 

 bloody juice. Odor of radish. Thinner than species nearest to it. The 

 spores are ochraceous on a white ground, somewhat ferruginous on a 

 black ground. Fries. 



Spores 6x4/1, W.G.S. 



North Carolina, Curtis; Massachusetts, Sprague, Farlow, Frost; Con- 

 necticut, Wright; New York, Peck, 23d Rep. 



Edible. Ltxiba. 



C. cirmamo'meus Fr. Pileus i- 



(PLate LXXXVII.) 



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2/ in. across. Flesh thin, convexo- 

 campanulate, umbonate, somewhat 

 cinnamon color, silky squamulose 

 with yellowish innate fibrils, becom- 

 ing almost glabrous. Gills adnate, 

 broad, crowded, shining, yellowish, 

 then tawny-yellow. Stem 2-4 in. 

 long, equal, yellow, as is also the 

 flesh and the veil, hollow. Spores 



CORTINARIUS CINNAMOMEUS. 



Natural size. 



A very common species, especi- 

 ally in mossy places in pine woods, 

 occurring under many well defined 

 forms, which can not be separated as 

 species. Essential points common 

 to all. ( I ) Stem everywhere equal, 



stuffed, then hollow, yellowish, fibrillose from the similarly colored veil. 

 (2) Pileus thin, flattened and obtusely umbonate, silky with yellowish 

 down, often glabrous when adult, and then bright cinnamon, but the 

 color is variable. (3) Flesh splitting, yellowish. (4) Gills adnate, 

 crowded, thin, broad, always shining. (5) Spores dark ochraceous, 

 size and color very variable; pileus from ^-3-4 in. across; color of 

 pileus changeable, depending on the more or less persistence of the 

 down (fundamental color and veil constant in this species and its allies) ; 

 gills varying through blood-red, reddish cinnamon, tawny saffron, golden 

 and yellow. Fries. 



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