CORTINARIUS. 105 



Tufted, irregular. Whole plant when cut or bruised of a 

 beautiful violet. Pileus 3 in. broad, at first viscid, dirty 

 umber-tawny and bro%vn, then tawny with a very faint tinge 

 of purple, expanded, shining, minutely tibrillose, the fibrillae 

 quite adpressed. Gills very broad, at first violet then cinna- 

 mon, emarginate, distant. Stem 1^ in. high, ^-1 in. thick, 

 composed of fibres, bulbous, at first tinged with violet, 

 nearly smooth except towards the bulb, where are a few 

 fibrillae dusted with the sporules. (Berk.) 



Cortinarius (Phleg.) calochrous. Fr. 



Pileus about 2 in. across, compact, convex then plane, 

 obtuse, viscid, spotted and often stained, tawny, yellowish 

 towards the margin, which is at first involute, often flexuous 

 when expanded ; flesh pure white ; gills emarginate, crowded, 

 dark purple-blue, margin serrate; stem lh-2 in. long, ?. in. 

 thick, equal, with a distinctly and abrupt marginate bulb, 

 which is sometimes depressed, fibrillose, yellowish, never be- 

 coming blue, solid and firm ; veil yellow, marginal, fugacious ; 

 spores 7-8 X 4 ju. 



Cortinarius {Plilegmacimii) calochrous. Fries, Epicr., p. 265 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 242; Cke., Illustr., pi. 713. 



In woods, esj)ecially beech. 



Stem equal, short, not blue. Pileus commonly tawny, 

 yellow near the margin, which is involute, often flexuous, 

 but not arched. (Fries.) 



Pileus 3-4 in. broad, truly carnose, viscid when moist, 

 nearly smooth with a satiny lustre, olivaceous-tawny when 

 young, tawny when full grown, flesh tinged with yellow, 

 and when young very dilute violet. Veil arachnoid, the 

 threads arising partly from the apex, partly from the middle 

 of the stem. Gills close, thin, emarginate, serrulate, at first 

 bright violet, then ferruginous with a dilute violet tinge ; 

 not at all olivaceous. Sporules elliptic. Stem 1-3 in. high, 

 1 in. thick, fibrillose, the fibrillae above copious and densely 

 dusted with the sporules, bulbous, violet towards the gills, 

 the rest whitish, when young very shaggy at the base. The 

 plant described above seems to be the var. h. of Fries. The 

 taste is astringent and the odour nauseous, like that of A. 

 radicosus, whereas Fries describes his species as inodorous 

 and insipid. The bright violet of the gills is not very 



