CORTINARIUS. 95 



towards the margin. Pileiis smaller, more compact ; golden- 

 yellow or golden. Gills at first greyish- white. (Fries.) 



Cortinarius (Phleg.) claricolor. Fr. 



Pileiis 3-5 in. broad, everywhere fleshy, convex then 

 expanded, at length depressed, at first everywhere, soon 

 towards the margin only, silky-villose, then entirely glabrons, 

 even, for the most part cracked into minute scales, yellow, 

 unchangeable ; gills variable in attachment, adnate, emar- 

 ginate, or free, crowded, at first white, (or in some forms, 

 greyish), then clay-colour, margin unequal ; stem 3 in. long, 

 -J- in. and more thick, solid, firm, white, up to the superior 

 ring with white floccose squamules covered with loose 

 tomentum, above the ring powdered with white meal, the 

 squamules and ring disappear with age, stem sometimes 

 short and bulbous, sometimes elongated, conico-attenuate, 

 or equal ; flesh of pileus and stem white ; spores obliquely 

 pip-shaped, 11-12 X 6-7 /x. 



Cortinarius claricolor, Fries, Epicr., p. 257 ; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 237 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 693. 



On the ground amongst birch, heather, Sec. 



Yery variable, but always robust and compact. Inter- 

 mediate between C. triumjphans and C. turmalis ; remarkable 

 for the compact and rimosely-squamulose pileus. (Fries.) 



Cortinarius (Phleg.) turmalis. Fr. 



Pileus 2-4 in. across, compact, flesh white, convex then, 

 plane, very obtuse, even, smooth (or sometimes indistinctly 

 piloso-virgate), covered when young with white, fugacious- 

 down, soon naked, viscid, dingy yellowish-tan, disc usually 

 darker, not changing colour; gills variously attached, 

 rounded, emarginate, or even with a decurrent tooth, rather 

 broad, crowded, white, then yellow-tan ; stem variable in 

 length, sometimes 3 in., at others 6 in. long, up to 1 in. thick, 

 very hard, rigid, cylindrical, sometimes attenuated at the 

 base, white when dry, when young with white down, naked 

 when mature, solid ; spores, 8-9 x 5 /x. 



Cortinarius (PJilegmacium) turmalis. Fries, Epicr., p. 257 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 237; Cke., Illustr., pi. 694. 



On the ground. Usually growing in dense clusters, espe- 

 cially amongst heaps of beech leaves. Gills never tinged 

 with blue. 



