102 FUNGUS-FLOE A. 



Pilens never zoned, but sometimes smoke-colour wlien 

 moist ; yellowish-olive and spotted wlien dry. Thinner than 

 C. infractits, at first usually more sinuous and irregular. 

 Stem ascending or curved. (Fries.) 



Cortinarius (Phleg.) Berkeleyi. Cooke. 



Pileus 3-6 in. across, convex then expanded, very fleshy, 

 viscid, shining when dry, brown, darkest in the centre, often 

 Avith a tinge of lilac towards the margin, disc even, for 

 about an inch round the margin coarsely plicate or rugulose, 

 but not evenly striate, flesh ^ in. thick except the extreme 

 edge, white, margin with purple tinge ; gills rather close, 

 narrow, slightly emarginate, cinnamon with an olive tinge 

 at first ; stem 4-6 in. long, 1 in. thick above, base bulbous, 

 solid, flesh white, silky-fibril lose, w^hite, veil persistent as an 

 indistinct brown broken line on stem; spores yellow-brown, 

 elliptic-fusiform, rugulose, 15-16 X 8-9 /x. 



Cortinarius (Plilegmacium) Berheleiji, Cke., Hdbk., p. 240 ; 

 Cke., Illustr., t. 706 (not good, margin too regularly grooved) ; 

 Cke., Illustr., t. 707, is also said to be this sj^ecies, but if 

 reall}" so it is a very marked variety. 



Cortinarius torvus, Fries, Kalchbrenner, t. xxi., fig. 1 

 (excellent). 



Cortinarius anfractus, Berk., not of Fries. 



In woods. The present species is considered by con- 

 tinental mycologists as being the true C, torvus of Fries, but 

 the British specimens that I have seen fresh have a distinctly 

 viscid pileus, whereas C. torvus is a Telamonia. The present 

 species was named C. anfractus by Berkeley, but is certainly 

 not that species. When young the whole fungus is involved 

 in a whitish volva, patches of which frequently remain on 

 the pileus. 



tt SCAUEI. 

 * Gills li'Jiiiish, then tan or pale cinnamon. 



Cortinarius (Phleg.) multiformis. Fr. 



Bileus 2-3 in. across, fleshy, regular, convex then expanded, 

 very obtuse, becoming depressed, generally very viscid, even, 

 glabrous, every portion the same colour, j^ellow, yellow-tan, 

 tawny, &c., sometimes spotted, fibrilloso-virgate, or lacunose; 



