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shining ; flesh similarly coloured, dingy white when dry ; 

 gills adnate, scarcely sinuate, 3 lines broad, plane, firm, 

 tough, rather thick, not very crowded, veined, dark cin- 

 namon, paler when young ; stem 4 in. long, 3—4 lines thick 

 at the base, 2 lines at the apex, stift*, naked, not cartilao;inous, 

 but everywhere remarkably longitudinally fibrillose, splitting, 

 the fibrils coloured like the pileus, base sometimes rooting, 

 encircled by blood-red mj'celium ; veil entirely fibrillose, 

 tawny-red ; spores ochraceous, pip-sha|>ed, 9 x 4 /u.. 



Cortinarius \Hygrocyhe) coins, Fries, Mon., ii. p. 102 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 277 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 795. 



Jn pine woods. 



Mycelium fiery-orange. 



Cortinarius (Hygr.) isabellinus. Fr. 



Pileus about 2 in. across, rather fleshy, convex, rather 

 Timbonate, even, glabrous, yellowish ; when dry yellow and 

 shining; gills adnate, rather distant, broad but thin, at first 

 yellow then cinnamon-tan ; stem 4 in. long, 4 lines thick, 

 everywhere equal, very rigid and firm, partly hollow, dis- 

 tinctly striated, yellowish ; veil almost obsolete, yellowish ; 

 spores cinnamon, obliquely pip-shaped, minutely granular, 

 10 X 5 /x. 



Cortinarius (JSygrocyhe) isabellinus, Fries, Monogr., ii. p. 103 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk. p. 278; Cke., Illustr., pi. 829. 



In dry pine woods. 



Allied to C. coins, but more rigid and firm. Veil scanty, 

 very fugacious, yellow. (Fries.) 



Cortinarius (Hygr.) renidens. Fr. 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, rather fleshy, convex then jolane, 

 gibbous, hygrophanous, glabrous, shining, tawny, ochraceous 

 when dry; gills adnexed, crowded, 2-3 lines broad, thin, 

 tawny ; stem 1^-2 in. long, 3-4 lines thick, equal, firm, 

 glabrous, stuff'ed, yellow, as is also the fibrillose veil ; spores 

 elliptical, apiculate, 8-10 x o fx. 



Cortinarius {Hygrocyhe) renidens. Fries, Epicr., p. 308 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 278; Cke., Illustr., pi. 782. 



In shady woods, Usually slightly clustered. 



Nature and appearance is that of C. armeniacus, but smaller 

 and brighter coloured, and especially by the yellow veil, 



