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but not rigid, even, glabrous, feiTuginous or watery cinnamon, 

 more or less hygrophanou(«, wlien dry tawny, shining, or 

 becoming pale ; flesh splitting, clingy, pale ochraceous ; gills 

 very emarginate, 3 lines broad, more or less crowded, at hrst 

 pale, soon watery, then dingy ferruginous; stem in the 

 typical form solid, more or less bulbous, attenuated upwards ; 

 adpressedly fibrillose, externally rigid, subcartilaginous, 

 pallid, soft within and dull orange at the base ; amongst 

 heaps of rotten pine leaves, stout, very much inflated, spongy ; 

 size variable, usually 3 in. long, i in. thick ; veil entirely 

 fibrillose, marginal only, not peronate, very fugacious, spores 

 8-10 X 0-6 fx. 



Cortinarius (Hi/grocyhe) suhfernigineus, Fries, Monogr., ii. 

 p. 93; Cke., Hdbk., p. 274; Cke., Illustr., pi. 808. 



On the ground amongst leaves, &c., smell and taste 

 unpleasant. 



There are many forms distinct so far as colour is concerned, 

 but difficult to describe. Distinguished from C. armeniacus 

 in the opaque colour ; fleshy, obtuse pileus, the stem not 

 being elastic, and in the veil not collapsing. Dificrs from 

 C. hicelus in the simple veil, smooth hygrophanous pileus, 

 (watery ferruginous when moist, becoming ferruginous-tan 

 when dry.) (Fries.) 



Cortinarius (Hygr.) armeniacus. Fr. 

 Pileus 2-4 in. across, rigid, rather fleshy, flesh-coloured 



ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE GENUS CORTINARIUS. 



Fi^. 1, Cortinarius (Phleginacium) purpurascens, Fr., entire fungus, 

 showing the cobweb-like veil an<l the marginate bulb of the stem ; about 

 one-third nat. size ; — Fig 2, sect'on of same, showing the fleshy pileus ; 

 one-third nat. size; — Fig. 3, Curtiiiarius (Mijxacium) stillatitiuH,Vr. ; about 

 one-third nat. size ; — Fig. 4, section of same ; one-third nat. size ; — Fig. 5, 

 Cortinarius {Hydrocijhe) ohtusua. Fr. ; one-third nat. size ; — Fig. 6, section 

 of same ; one-third nat. size ; — Fig. 7, Cortinarius {Inoloma) albo-violaceui', 

 Fr. ; about one-third nat. size ; — Fig. 8, section of same ; one-third nat. 

 size; — Yig. 9, Cortinarius (Telamonia), gentilis^Fr.; one-third nat. size; 

 ^Fig. 10, Cortinarius (^Dermocyhe) decumbens, Fr. ; otie-third nat. size; — 

 Fig. 11, section of same; one-third nat. size; — Fig. 11a, spores of same; 

 X 400 ; — Fig. 12, basidium and" spores of Cortinarius i^Inoloma) alho- 

 violaceus, Fr. ; x 400 ; — Fig. 13, spores of Cortinarius {Hy d rocybe) ohtusus^ 

 Fr. ; X 400; — Fig. 14, spores of Cortinarius ' Phlegmaciuni) purpurascens, 

 Fr. ; X 400. 



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