62 FUNGrS-FLORA. 



Called diaholicKs because it is intermediate in character 

 between two sections. Pileus often unequal, cracked. In- 

 odorous. (Fries.) 



* GUIs at first violet, becoming puiyle, 



Cortinarius (Dermo.) caninus. Fr. 



Pileus 3-4 in. across, equally fleshy, not thick, firm, not 

 cracking, convex then flattened, obtuse, hoary and silky at 

 first near the margin, glabrous when adult, colour variable,, 

 fuscous or brown, in age generally rufous brick-red, tawny 

 when dry ; flesh wdiite, becoming yellowish ; gills emar- 

 ginate, rather distant, thin, 3-4 lines broad, gre}^ or purj)lish, 

 then cinnamon ; stem 3 in. and more long, i in. thick, in- 

 crassated at the base, somewhat bulbous, often whitish- 

 villose, pallid then white, apex violet, stufled and spongy 

 within, then hollow ; spores 8 X o-6 /x. 



Cortinarius (Bermocyhe) caninus, Fries, ^lonogr., ii. p. 60 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 258; Cke., Illustr., pi. 765. 



In woods. 



Allied to Cart, tahularis, which differs in size, also to Cort, 

 anomalus ; the latter, however, differs in the peronate and 

 somewhat ringed stem, and the colour of the pileus — fuscous- 

 to rufescent. (I ries.) 



Cortinarius (Dermo.) myrtillinus. Fr. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, thin, tough, gibbous then flattened, 

 .smoke-colour, never becoming rufescent, densely silky hoary ; 

 flesh watery fuscous when moist, w^hite when dry, violet at 

 the apex of the stem ; gills adnate, rather distant, clear 

 amethyst-blue, scarcely changing colour, never purplish ; 

 stem 2 in. or more loDg, 3-4 lines thick, slightly bulbous, 

 externally tough, whitish, with a white silkiness, stuffed ; 

 veil scarcely evident; spores elliptical, 10 x 5 /ji. 



Cortinarius {Dermocyhe^ myrtillinus, Fries, Epicr., p. 285 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 258; Cke., Illustr., pi. 817. 



In beech w^oods, &c., near trunks. 



Colour and habit of Triclioloma nuda ; flesh at first watery 

 brown, then white, violet at the apex of the stem. Pileus. 

 not rufescent, nor the gills with a purple shade ; veil not 

 peronate. (Fries.) 



