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CORTINARIUS. 35 



Cort'inarius (R}jgrocijhe) milvinus, Fries, Epicr., p. 314 ; 



ke., Hdbk., 283 ; Cke., Illustr., plate 84Gi3. 



In woods. 



Gregarious, stem 2-3 in. long, 2 lines thick, not flexiioiis. 

 Pileiis .^,-1 in. broad, fawn-colour with an olive tinge. Strong- 

 scented. (Fries.) 



Cortinarms (Hygr.) fasciatus. Fr. 



Pileus ^,-z in. across, submemhranaceous, conical, then 

 expanded, the acute umbo blackish, the remainder brick-red, 

 glabrous, minutely silky and becoming pale when dry ; gills 

 adnate, slightly ventricose, thin, truly distant, distinct, 

 Ih line broad, cinnamon; stem variable, sometimes about 

 2 in. long, 1 line thick, straight; or 3—4 in. long, flexuous, 

 and with the surface undulated, not cuticulose but splitting 

 entirely into fibrils, hollow, glabrous, jiallid brownish, then 

 brownish cinnamon ; spores cinnamon, 8 x 5 /x. 



Cortinarius (^Hygrocyhe) fasciatus, Fries, Monogr., ii. p. 114; 

 €ke., Hdbk., p. 282; Cke., Illustr., pi. 814. 



Damp places in pastures under 2:»ines, &c. 



Eemarkable for the stem splitting longitudinally into 

 fibres ; resembling C. flexipes in colour, but in most respects 

 nearest to C. acutus, from which it differs in the very distant 

 sills. 



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Suhrjen, TELAMONIA. 



ANALYSTS OF THE SPECIES. 

 I. Platyphylli. 



Gills very broad, rather thick, more or less distant. Stem 

 S23ongy or entirely fibrous. 



* Stem and veil white or whitish. 



** Stem and gills violet. Cortina or partial veil whitish, 

 tinted violet, or universal veil white. 



*** Stem and veil red or yellow. Gills tawny or 

 -cinnamon, not violet nor becoming brown. 



**** Stem becoming brownish, veil fuscous or dingy, gills 

 dark. 



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