74 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



and yellow. The yellow down of the pileus separates it 

 from C. depexus ; the colonr is sea-green or clear yellow-green, 

 flesh greenish-yellow. Pileus obtusely umbonate. (Fries.) 



Suhfjen, IXOLOMA. 



ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIES. 



* Gills white or pallid at first. 



** Gills, Teil, and stem becoming violet. 



*** Gills and veil cinnamon, red, or ocliraceous. 



**** Gills and veil dusky, fuscous or olivaceous. 



Siihgen. INOLOMA. 

 Gills at first ivliite or pallid. 



* 



Cortinarius (Ino.) argent atus. Krombh. 



Pileus 3-4 in. across, fleshy, convexo-plane, at length 

 broadly gibbous, silky then almost glabrous, silvery- grey,, 

 shining, pale whitish-brown near the margin, at first lilac 

 and silky ; flesh whitish ; gills emarginate, crowded, serrulate, 

 3 lines broad, pallid then watery cinnamon ; stem 4 in. 

 long, ^ in. and more thick, attenuated from the scarcely 

 bulbous base, glabrous, silvery- white, base at length yellowish, 

 solid, white within ; veil fibrillose, fugacious, pallid, 

 adhering to the margin of the pileus ; spores 8 x 5 /x. 



Cortinarius air/entatus, Krombholtz, Icon., t. ii. f. 27; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 250 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 745. 



In woods. 



Large, stout, inodorous, becoming pale; pileus sometimes 

 flexuous. Smell rather strong, but not foetid. 



Var. pinetorum, Fries, Monogr., i. p. 46 ; Cke., Illustr., 

 pi. 746. 



Smaller ; stem 2 in. long, pileus 2 in. broad, at first lilac 

 and silky ; odour weak. 



Cortinarius (Ino. ) opimus. Fr. 

 Pileus 3-4 in. across, flesh very thickand very hard, white ; 

 convex then plane, deformed, Avavy, margin broken, absolutely 



