DESCRIPTIONS OF FUNGI. 115 



Brown. 



MUSHROOMS WITH THE CAP BROWN AND 

 VARIOUS SHADES OF BROWN. 



CORTINARIUS CINNAMOMEUS = cinnamon. 

 The Cinnamon-colored Cortinarius. 



Cap a golden brown or bright cinnamon 

 color, 1 % to 4 inches broad, umbonate, silky, 

 shining, squamulose, with yellowish fibrils, 

 and then smooth. Stem 2 inches long, stuffed 

 and then hollow, thin, equal, tapering toward 

 the base, yellowish color, as also are the flesh 

 and the veil. Gills adnate, broad, crowded, 

 shining reddish-brown color. Our specimen 

 had beautiful reddish-colored gills, ~Var. semi- 

 sanguineus (Peck). It grows in woods from 

 August to November. 



C0LLYBIA ACERVATA = a heap. 

 The Tufted Collybia. 



The name of the species is derived from a 

 Latin word meaning a heap, so called from the 

 habit of growth. (Stevenson.) Cap tan 

 brown color, 2 to 3 inches broad, flesh color 

 when moist, whitish when dry, convex, then 

 flattened, obtuse or gibbous, margin at first 

 involute, then flattened and slightly stri- 



