CORTINARIUS. 61 



Larger than C. anomahs, paler, more glabrous ; gills at 

 first whitish or with a transient shailo of grey, sometimes 

 becoming somewhat ferruginous. (Fries.) 



Cortinarius rDermo.) camurus. Fr. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, very unequally tieshy, disc rather 

 thick, but from the middle almost membranaceous, the broad, 

 obtuse umbo often oblique, cracked when dry, pale hoary- 

 brown, not hygrophanous but becoming pale yellowish, the 

 umbo darkest ; flesh white ; gills variously attached owing 

 to the oblique pileus, sometimes broadly adnate on one side, 

 sometimes almost free, crowded, about 3 lines broad, thin, 

 greyish-tan, then watery cinnamon or brownish, edge quite 

 entire, similarly coloured; stem imperfectly hollow, equal, 

 3 in. long, 4 lines thick, always ascending or twisted, even, 

 glabrous or fibrillose below, white outside and inside, apex 

 naked and silvery-shining; spores 8-9 X G-7 /x. 



Cortinarius {Dermocyhe) cnmurus, Fries, Epicr., p. 285 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 257 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 784. 



In woods. 



Caespitose, very fragile, stem 3 in. long, 3-4 lines thick, 

 twisted or ascending, longitudinally adpressedly fibrillose 

 downwards. Pileus unequally fleshy, margin somewhat 

 membranaceous, soon glabrous, but not hygrophanous, 

 2-3 in. broad, often cracking, at length yellowish, disc 

 darkest, flesh white. Gills 2-3 lines broad, edge coloured 

 like the rest, quite entire, never grey, (Fries.) 



Cortinarius (Dermo.) diabolicus. Fr. 



Pileus 1 in. and more across, thin, hemispherical, obtuse 

 then gibbous, dry, fragile, cracking, at first brownish with a 

 grey bloom, then glabrous and yellowish-brown ; gills adnate, 

 separating and then appearing somewhat emarginate, rather 

 crowded, 2-3 in. broad, firm, very pale grey, soon whitish, 

 ■Sit length tan-colour ; stem 3 in. long, commonly thin, about 

 2 lines, but sometimes up to 5 lines thick, attenuated towards 

 the base, glabrous, pale, apex grey; veil fugacious; spores 

 elliptical, 10-12 x 7 /x. 



Cortinarius {Dermocyhe) diabolicus^ Fries, Epicr., p. 285; 

 €ke., Hdbk., p. 258; Cke., Illustr., pi. 816 b. 



In beech woods, &c. 



