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Cortinarius (Tela.) licinipes. Fr. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, membranaceous, campaimlate then 

 convex, at length exi:)anded, obtusely nmbonate, usually 

 becoming depressed round the umbo, even, glabrous, yellow- 

 ish, pale tan when drj' ; gills adnate, very broad behind, up 

 to h in., rather crowded, ({uite entire, watery cinnamon ; 

 stem 4-5 in. long, 3-4 lines thick, fragile, equal often 

 flexuous, whitish, base ^^^th white down, the remainder with 

 white floccose or plumose scales, naked when old, smooth 

 above the distant, membranaceous ring, stulfed then hollow. 



Cortinarius (Telamonia) licinipeSy Fries, Epicr., p. 293; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 265; Cke., Illustr., pi. 819. 



In fir woods, when growing in damp places, amongst 

 sphagnum, &c., the stem is elongated, shorter in drj- 

 situations. 



Cortinarius (Tela.) microcyclus. Fr. 



Pileus 1-lJ in. across, thin, almost membranaceous, plano- 

 convex, reddish-fuscous, the minutely umbonate disc darker, 

 pale and opaque when dry, even, glabrous, never torn ; gills 

 adnate, very broad, almost ovate in form, thin, at first lilac, 

 then dark cinnamon ; stem 1-2 in. long, base 3 lines, apex 

 about 1^ line thick, but variable, from the incrassated base 

 attenuated uj^wards, white or pallid, veil collapsed into a 

 white zone round the stem. 



Cortinarius {Telamonia) microcyclus. Fries, Monogr., ii. p. 78 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 265 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 865. 



In pine woods, &c. 



Allied to Cort. decipiens in colour and habit, but diifering 

 in the somewhat bulbous stem and the white ring. (Fries.) 



** Stem and gills violet, cortina ivMtish becoming violet, universal 



veil ivJiite. 



Cortinarius (Tela.) torvus. Fr. 

 Pileus 2-4 in. across, flesh thin except the disc, convex, 

 margin at first incurved, then wholly expanded, obtuse, rather 

 fragile, even, or the cuticle minutely broken up when dry, 

 with depressed points when old, sometimes coarsely radiato- 

 rugulose, at first hoary with minute fibrillose squamules, 

 and marbled with the same hoariness when smooth, scarcely 



