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margin wliitisli - fibrillose ; gills emarginate, somewhat 

 crowded, purplish-violet, broad ; \ stem about 3 in. long, 

 bulbous, attenuated upwards, about § in. thick at the apex,, 

 villose, purplish-violet, flesh without juice ; veil white at 

 first ; spores 8-9 X ■!-<'> />«.. 



Cortinarius (Inoloma) muricinus, Fries, Epicr., p. 279; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 252 ; Cke., lllustr., pi. 815. 



In larch-woods, &:c. 



Stem stout, somewhat woolly, pileus thick, spongy, 3-4 in. 

 broad, gills h in. broad, at length reddish-liver colour, smell 

 peculiar. Flesh juioeless, sky-blue then whitish. (Fries.) 



Cortinarius (Ino.) alboviolaceus. Fr. (figs. 7, 8, 

 12, p. IG.) 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, convex, broadly umbonate or gibbous, 

 dry, prettily innately silky and even, the fibrils longi- 

 tudinally adpressed, whitish-violet ; flesh watery, bright 

 bluish-white ; gills adnate, scarcely emarginate, 2-3 Hues 

 broad, not crowded, somewhat serrulate at the margin, 

 colour a peculiar greyish-A'iolet, at length greyish-cinnamon ; 

 stem 2 in. long, ^-1 in. thick, solid, firm, clavately bulbous, 

 or conically attenuated, whitish-violet outside and inside, 

 with white down, fibrillose above from the veil, and with a 

 white ring-like zone at the middle of the stem; spores 

 12 X 5-6 /x. 



Cortinarius (^Inoloma) alboviolaceus, Fries, Epicr., p. 280 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 253 ; Cke., lllustr., pi. 747. 



In beech woods, &c., amongst fallen leaves. 



Smell none, taste not remarkable ; stem somewhat conical 

 and often perouately ringed. Flesh juicy, bluish-white. 



Cortinarius (Ino.) malachius. Fr. 

 Pileus about 2 in. across, tiuly and equally fleshy, com- 

 monly compact, convex then expanded, obtuse or slightly 

 gibbous, pale lilac then rusty brown, pale tan when dr}', 

 hoary from minute fasciculate down, or towards the margin 

 silky; flesh whitish; gills emarginate, crowded, purple, 

 becoming pale, at length watery ferruginous ; stem bulbous 

 (when growing on rotten pine leaves very ventricose, or 

 sometimes equal), always stout, 3-4 in. and more long, often 

 1 in. thick, frequently deformed, bluish-lilac then whitish,. 



