CORTIXARIUS. 71 



In colour the present species approaches C. pcrcomus and 

 C. callisteus, bnt is readily known from either by the above 

 characters. Flesh whitish. 



**** Becoming olivaceous. Veil cliugi/, pallid, or fuscous. 



Pileus not torn into scales. 



Cortinarius ( Dermo.; cotoneus. Fr. 



Pileus about 3 in. across, flesh thin, soft, pale olive, cam- 

 l)anulate then exiDanded, obtuse, rather wavy, everywhere 

 densely covered with a clear olive down or tomentum, fragile, 

 when old ; gills adnate, sej^arating from the stem, rather 

 crowded, 2-3 lines broad, olive then cinnamon, edge same 

 colour and quite entire ; stem 3 in. long, h in. thick, soft, 

 bulbous, somewhat fibrillose, pale olive, solid ; veil persistent, 

 forming a brown interwoven zone near the apex of the stem ; 

 spores elliiDtical, granular, 10-11 X 8 /x. 



Cortinarius (Dermocyhe) cotoneus, Fries, Epicr., p. 289 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 262 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 7-49. 



In woods. 



Very showy ; soft to the touch, olivaceous outside and 

 inside ; opaque, pileus lax, 3 in. broad, covered with a 

 pure olive-coloured, subpersistent down. Stem 3 in. long. 

 (Fries.) 



Cortinarius (Dermo.j subnotatus. Fr. 



Pileus 3— i in. across, llesh thin, campanulate then ex- 

 panded, at first clothed with hoary, floccose, superficial 

 squamules, soon glabrous, olive then fuscous ; gills adnate, 

 ventricose, broad, rather distant, yellowish then olivaceous- 

 cinnamon; stem 3— i in. long, ^ in. thick, conical, sqnamulose 

 with the yellowish fibrils of the veil, smooth and shining at 

 the apex, stuti'ed and spongy inside ; spores elliptical, 

 granular, 10 X o /x. 



Cortinarius (Dermocyhe^ suhnotatus, Fries, Epicr., p. 290 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 262 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 832 ? 



In beech woods, &c. 



A tall species; stem stout, fragile, 3-4 in. long, glabrous 

 wdien adult. Pileus at first conical, acute, gibbous, pale, 

 4 in. broad ; peculiar in becoming quite plane, glabrous, and 

 dark fuscous when adult and dry. Gills 3-5 lines broad, con- 

 nected by veins, rather thick. (Fries.) 



