CORTINARIUS. Ill 



stem about 3 in. long, fibrillose except the somewliat turbi- 

 nate, marg-inate bulb, solid, flesh tinted with bluish-green ; 

 spores elliptical, 10 x ^ fJ- 



Cortinariiis (Phlegmacium) atrovircns, Kalchbr., Hym. 

 Hung., p. 34, t. 19, f. 3 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 2i5 ; Cke., Illustr., 

 pi. 736. 



In pine woods, tl'C. 



Kesenibling C. pras/n^'s in colour, but differing in the 

 pileus not being spotted with scales, and in the sulphur- 

 coloured mjxelium. 



Cortinarius (Phleg.) scaurus. Fr. 



Pileus l.\-3 in. across, flesh thick at the disc, becoming 

 very thin towards the margin and at length slightly striate, 

 viscid, smoky-tawny, spotted, becoming pale; stem about 

 3 in. long, 3-5 lines thick at the apex, attenuated upwards 

 from the marginate bulb, tinged with green or blue, solid ; 

 gills attenuated behind, adnexed, thin, crowded, purplish- 

 olive; spores 10 X o fi. 



Cortinarius (Phlegmacium) scauriis^ Fries, Epicr., p. 268 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 245 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 755. 



In woods. 



Stem greenish or bluish, never yellow. Pileus smoky- 

 tawny, becoming fulvous when dry, flesh thin, watery, 

 insipid. Gills narrow, almost linear, sometimes purplish, 

 sometimes olive, also smoky. (Fries.) 



Soft, insipid, pileus 2-3 in. broad, sometimes depressed. 

 Gills rather thin, at length cinnamon. Stem about 3 in. 

 high, fi.brillose, sometimes marginato-bulbous, sometimes 

 when growing amongst moss nearly equal. (Fries.) 



Cortinarius (Phleg.) herpeticus. Fr. 



Pileus l|-3 in. across, fleshy, margin thin, convex then 

 plane, obtuse, even, glabrous, sparingly viscid, at first 

 •olive, then dingy tan, the disc becoming pale ; gills slightly 

 emarginate, at first very crowded and dark smoky-violet, 

 then slightly crowded, 2-3 lines broad, smoky-violet ; stem 

 -at first short, then 2-3 in. long, ^ in. thick, unequal, some- 

 what twisted, solid, firm, but spongy within and often 

 hollow at the apex, fibrillose, pallid, scarcely tinged violet, 

 the napiform bulb marginate ; spores 10 X 6 yu.. 



