84 AGARICINl. 



Gills, sometimes emarginate, almost free, sometimes decur- 

 rent, pallid, then cinnamon, becoming purple when bruised. 



Stem, 7.5-10 cent. (3-4 in.) long, 12 mm. (^ in.) thick, 

 at length hollow, somewhat cylindrical, marginato-bulbous at 

 the base, fibrillose below, naked above, smooth, slightly 

 striate, pale azure-blue or whitish. — Stevenson' s British Fungi. 



Common in open woods. 



C. (Phlegfmacium) glaucopus. Fr. 

 Pileus, compact, expanded, viscid, floccose squamose, flesh 

 yellowish. 



Gills, emarginate, blue then pale, then rusty. 



Stem, solid, thick, bulbous, which disappears, pale blue. 



The pale blue stemmed Cortinarius. The flesh is also pale blue. It 

 belongs to the subtribe Scaurii, or clubfoot. Chaparral ridgewood. 



C. (Phlegmacium) csenilescens. Fr. 



Pileus, convex, expanded, even, viscid ; flesh soft, azure 

 blue ; flesh firm, not changing color when bruised. 



Gills, adnate; distant, subdecurrent, violet, at length rusty, 

 with spores. 



Stem, bulbous, solid, flbrillose from veil. 



This is one of the most robust of the family. The pileus is brownish 

 convex. The base of stipe turbanate bulbous. The veil is pale blue. 

 The gills intensely blue. 



Laros's schoolhouse. 



Tribe II. Myxacium. Ger. Schleimfuss. 

 Slimy-stem Cortinarius. Pileus and stem glutinous, polished 

 when dry. 



C. (Myxacium) collinitus. Fr. 

 Pileus, convex, expanded, obtuse, glutinous, purplish when 

 young, later brownish. 



