Cortinarius AGARIC ACE^; 231 



St. clavato-bulbous, stuffed, whitish or pale violet. Co. obsolete. 

 G. adnate, amethyst-azure-blue, or pale violet to dusky, not 

 purple. Flesh watery fuscous or whitish. 



Mixed woods, near trunks, beech. Sept. -Oct. 2^ x 2j x ^ in. Greatly 

 resembles 138 and 139, but these have no arachnoid veil, etc. 



1066. C. azureus Fr. (from the sky-blue pileus ; azureus, sky- 



blue) a b. 



P. expanded, obtuse, atomate, lilac, then fuscous and pallid. 

 St. stuffed, slightly attenuate upwards, smooth, striate, bright 

 azure then whitish, zoned. G. adnato-emarginate, bright 

 bluish-violet. Flesh white in P., blue in St. 



Solitary. Woods, beech, amongst moss and leaves. Autumn. if X2jx T 5 s in. 



1067. C. alboeyaneus Fr. (from the white pileus and blue gills ; 



atbns, white, cyaneus, sea-blue) a b. 



P. convex, plane, obtuse or umbonate, becoming yellowish, 

 fringed with Co. St. subclavate, stuffed, whitish, zoned. G. 

 emarginate, crowded, bluish-purple to subochreous. 



Sometimes csespitose. Woods, beech. Sept. 2g X 4! X T S 5 . 



1068. C. anomalus Fr. (from the colour of all its parts being very 



changeable ; anomalus, irregular) a b c. 



P. convex, expanded, gibbous or subumbonate, fuliginous or 

 olive-shaded to rufescent, then yellowish with ochreous-sienna 

 mid. St. stuffed to hollow, attenuate upwards, fibrillose or 

 scaly, whitish, then palest yellow, zoned. G. adnato-emar- 

 ginate, crowded, thin, violaceous to cinnamon. 



Gregarious. Odour none. Woods; common. Aug.-Oct. 2gX2|x T 5 5 in. 



1069. C. spilomeus Fr. (from the spotted pileus and stem ; Gr. spitos, 



3. spot) a. 



P. convex, expanded, gibbous, rufescent to clay-colour, spotted 

 with reddish-tawny sc. Sf. hollow, almost equal, white-lilac 

 above, pale yellowish below, with many zones of reddish tawny 

 sc. G. adnato- or adnexo-emarginate, crowded, thin, bluish- 

 grey or violaceous to watery cinnamon. 



SubcEespitose. Woods ; uncommon. Oct. 2 x 3! X | in. 



1070. C. lepidopus Cooke (from the fibrillose zones round the stem ; 



Gr. lepis, a scale, pous, a foot) a b. 



P. convex, flat, slightly depressed, shining umber ; mid. becoming 

 rufescent ; marg. steel-grey or pale violet. St. clavate, becoming 

 hollow, violet or steel-grey above, whitish below, with con- 

 centric biscuit-coloured zones. G. adnato-rounded, thin, violet 

 to cinnamon, or olive-shaded. 



Gregarious or fasciculate. Woods, amongst heath. Sept. -Oct. 

 2 X 4 X J in. Perhaps a form of 1064. 



