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points. (1) stem solid, firmer, striato-fibrillose, tawny as 

 is also the Teil. (2) pileiis firmer, ground-colour tawny, the 

 fibiillose down golden. (3) flesh reddish. (4) gills broader, 

 firmer, and more distant. Sometimes confounded with 

 C. cinnaharhuis, from which it differs in colour, and especially 

 in the stem being coloured like the pileus, and not yellowish. 

 (Fries.) 



Cortinarius (Dermo.) malicorius. Fr. 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, flesh thin, convex then plane, obtuse, 

 fibrillosely velvety, golden-tawny; flesh splitting, yellow 

 then greenish-olive ; gills rounded behind, adnexed, crowded, 

 golden-tawny, margin at length flocculose, discoloured ; stem 

 about 2 in. long, ^ in. thick, fibrillose, and with the fibrils of 

 the cortina, golden, hollow. 



Cortinarius ( Dermoajhe) malicorius, Fr., Epicr., p. 289 ; 

 Fries, Hymn. Eur., p. 371. 



In pine woods. 



Elegant, allied to C. cinnamomeus ; taste pleasant. Funda- 

 mental colour of pileus tawny, appearing to be darker at the 

 disc ; beautiful golden, especially near the margin, from the 

 down, stem -^ in. thick, at length fuscous or olive. Flesh 

 yellow, then olive. (Fries.) 



Very similar to C. cinnamomeus, differs as follows. (1) stem 

 always hollow; thicker (^ in.) short (2 in.), at first golden, 

 then olive brown. (2) pileus truly fleshy, rather thick, 

 almost plane, obtuse, disc dark brown shading off into tawny, 

 margin golden. (3) flesh yellow then intense golden-olive. 

 (A) gills rounded behind, much more crowded, 1 line broad, 

 golden-tawny, edge becoming floccose and discoloured. 

 (Fries.) 



Cortinarius (Dermo.) infucatus. Fr. 



Pileus 1^-2^ in. across, convex, obtuse, slightly silky when 

 dry, bright yellow; fleshy at the disc, margin almost mem- 

 branaceous ; gills adnate, slightly rounded behind, crowded, 

 narrow, tawny, then cinnamon-colour ; stem 3-5 in. long, 

 -i— ^ in. thick at the clavate base, attenuate upwards, fibril- 

 lose, white tinged yellowish, solid ; spores elliptical, 10 x o fx. 



Cortinarius (Dermo.) infucatus, Fries, Monogr., ii. p. 309 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 262 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 781. 



On the ground in woods. 



