DESCRIPTIONS OF FUNGI. 129 



Purple or Violet. 



breadth, eccentric or lateral, depressed in the 

 middle, dry, covered with dense down, soon 

 torn into scales, which are a dingy yellow. 

 Flesh yellow. Stem short, scarcely 1 inch, 

 tapering downward, yellow inside. Gills de- 

 current, tense and straight, crowded, narrow, 

 yellowish, then darker in color. It was grow- 

 ing on the ground in September. 



MUSHROOMS WITH PURPLE OR VIOLET- 

 COLORED CAP. 



CORTIKARIUS ALB0-VI0LACE0TJS = white and violet. 

 The Violet-colored Cortinarius. 



Cap whitish-violet, 2 to 3 inches broad, 

 fleshy, convex, broadly umhonate or gibbous, 

 dry, beautifully silky and becoming even ; flesh 

 juicy, a bluish-white color. Stem 2 to 4 inches 

 long, solid, firm, bulbous, club-shaped, \ to 1 

 inch thick. It is, both outside and inside, of a 

 whitish violet color, often fibrillose above, with 

 the cortina, and sometimes with the white veil, 

 in the form of a zone at the middle. Gills 

 adnate, 2 to 3 lines broad, somewhat distant, 

 slightly serrulated, of a peculiar ashy violace- 

 ous color, at length slightly cinnamon from the 



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