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slender and doubtful. The Scotch specimens, if true, were 

 by no means typical. (Cooke.) 



Cortinarius (Phleg.) emollitus. Fr. 



Pileus 3-4 in. across, tieshy, lax, rather wav}-, minutely 

 fibrilloso - virgate, viscid, tawny, ochraceous - yellow and 

 shining when dry, margin thin, incurved; stem lh-2 in. 

 long, ^ in. and more thick, stufted, unequal, scarcely bulbous, 

 ofren compressed, fibrillose, soft, white then tinged yellow, 

 veil fugacious ; gills emarginate, up to h in. broad, rather 

 distant, smooth, soft, white then ochraceous. 



Cortinarius (Plilegmacimii) emollitus, Fries, Epicr., p. 269 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 240 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 727. 



Amongst grass in beech woods, &c. 



Often caespitose, very variable, but very distinct from 

 neighbouring species in the acrid taste ; snow-white ver}'' 

 soft flesh ; soft, imperfectly hollow stem ; somewhat deformed 

 pileus, and rather distant gills. 



A small form occurs with a slender stem, pileus plane, 

 fragile. 



Cortinarius (Phleg.) cristallinus. Fr. 

 Pileus about 3 in. across, equally fleshy, but thin, expanded, 

 glabrous, viscid, shining, hygrophanous, disc watery-pallid, 

 towards the margin silvery-white, shining, when dry entirely 

 whitish ; gills emarginate, thin, 3 lines broad, crowded, tan- 

 colour ; stem 3 in. long, 4 lines thick, hollow or attenuated 

 at the base, fragile, fibrillose, whitish straw-colour ; spores 



S X 4: fJL. 



Cortinarius (Plilegmaciuni) cristallinus, Fries, Monogr., i. 

 p. 30 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 246 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 728. 



In mixed woods, amongst leaves. 



Taste very acrid. A form occurs having the pileus yel- 

 lowish-white, stem slightly viscid, gills rather decurrent. 

 (Fries.) 



Cortinarius (Phleg.) decoloratus. Fr. 

 Pileus 2-4 in. across, flesh thin, equal, campanulate then 

 convex, obtuse, soft, glabrous, tan-colour, disc darkest, corru- 

 gated when old, viscid ; gills emarginate, adnate, or decur- 

 rent, depending on the situation and mo Je of growth, slightly 

 crowded, 3 lines broad, tan-colour then cinnamon ; stem 



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