Cortinarius AGARICACE/E 249 



attenuate downwards, lighter than P. ; Co. whitish. G. adnate, 

 ventricose, orange-sienna ; edge white. 



Gregarious. Odour strong. Woods, chiefly pine ; requent. April-Oct. 

 i x 2^ x J in. 



1163. C. acutus Fr. (from the acute umbo) a b c. 



P. honey-colour or pale yellow to whitish ; marg. white fibrillose. 

 St. fistulose, equal, white-fibrillose, colour as P., zoned. 

 G. adnate, crowded, thin, white-ochre, ochreous-cinnamon or 

 watery-brown. 



Scattered, in troops, or crespitose. Odour at length nitrous. Woods, fir, 

 mixed, moist places ; frequent. Sept. -Nov. \\ X 2^ x J in. 



1164. C. Junghuhnii Fr. (after Francis Junghuhn) a. 



P. papillate, cinnamon or dull crimson-orange to tawny ; marg. 

 striate. St. stuffed to hollow, reddish, whitish below, adpressedly 

 fuscous-fibrillose. G. adnate, subdistant, thin, reddish-ochre 

 or olive shaded. Flesh reddish. 



Odour none. Woods, mossy places. Aug. I J X 2\ x -^ in. 



1165. C. depressus Fr. (from the pileus, at length depressed) a. 



P. smooth, vinous- or ochreous-umber ; marg. at first silky then 

 striate. St. hollow, attenuate downwards, reddish or yellow- 

 brownish. G. adnate, ventricose, saffron-yellow, reddish or 

 reddish-brown-ochre. 



Odour faint of stale fish or cucumber, as in 709, which resembles this in habit. 

 Woods, moist places. Autumn. ii X if X J in. 



1166. C. milvinus Fr. (from the coloration, like a kite's back ; mi/vus, 



a kite) a b. 



P. obtusely umbonate, olivaceous-fawn or olive to tan ; marg. 

 striate, white squamulose. St. stuffed, equal, pale fuscous, 

 with white silky spots, or whitish above, tan-brown below ; 

 Co. white. G. adnate, subdistant, ochreous olive-tan to olive. 



Gregarious. Odour strong. Woods. Oct. i X 2 x \ in. 



1167. C. faseiatus Fr. (from the fibrous-splitting stem, as if in 



bundles, fasrice) a b. 



P. acutely umbonate, smooth or subsilky, brick colour or umber ; 

 mid. sepia. St. fistulose, equal, splitting longitudinally into 

 fibres, pallid to cinnamon-fuscous, or variegated with bands of 

 white, tan and brown. G. adnate, subventricose, thin, distant, 

 cinnamon. 



Woods, pine, damp places, pastures under pines. Sept. -Oct. if X2x in. 



XLV. GOMPHIDIUS Fr. 



(From the shape, like a large bolt or nail, Gr. gomphos.} 



Veil universal, viscoso-floccose. Pileus at length turbinate, 

 glutinous when moist. Stem central, continuous and homogeneous 

 with the hymenophore, imperfectly floccoso-annulate or cortinate ; 



