82 AGARICINI. 



Stem, light brown, turns to a light purple or lilac on being 

 bruised, solid. 

 This plant was found in a thicket south of Trexlertown. 



C. (Phlegmacium) caperatus. Fr. 



Pileus, fleshy, ovate, expanded, obtuse, moist, incrusted 

 with superficial w^hite flocci, yellowish. 



Gills, fixed, serrate, crowded, clay colored. 



Stem, stout, even, white, squamulose at the apex from the 

 stout, membraneous ring. 



From capero, to wrinkle, from the wrinkled condition of the pileus. 

 This is placed by some authors under Pholiota, but Fries had the priority 

 for Cortinarius. The pileus is of a pale yellow and rugose, spotted with 

 film like white spots. 



This beautiful Cortinarius is quite common in its season, in oak groves, 

 growing singly on the ground. 



C. (Phlegmacium) communis. Pk. 



Pileus, fleshy, convex, whitish or gray, disk deeper color. 

 Gills, broad, emarginate, white, then ochraceous cinnamon. 

 Stem, straight, sometimes inclined, even, white. 



This is a very common species in our Lehigh County woods. Some of 

 the species grow to a large size, while others are ordinary, depending on 

 the soil favorable for development. It belongs to the tribe Phlegmacium, 

 Schleimkopf of the Germans. 



Found near Trexlertown. August. 



C. (Phlegmacium; selaginellus. N. Sp. 



Pileus, viscid, orbicular, fleshy, flesh turning purple when 

 cut ; epidermis brownish purple, covered with soil, margin 

 deflexed, never expanded, except the outside specimens. 



Gills, purple from the first, broad, sinuate, rusty at last, 

 from the spores. 



Stem, curt, emarginate, bulbous, purplish, solid, veiled 

 with the remainder of the purple spider-web veil, 



