CORTINARIUS. 13 



Monogr. ii. p. 24. Hym. Eur. p. 348. Grevillea, vol. xii. p. 42. Batsch f. Phlegma- 

 184. Quel. Grev. t. 106. f. 1. cium. 



**** GY/fr olivaceous. 



24. C. prasinus Fr. — Pileus sometimes aeruginous, sometimes 

 tawny-fuliginous, tiger-spotted, as if scaly, compact, convexo- 

 plane, very obtuse, regular, viscid, the margin regularly involute ; 

 flesh dingy white. Stem curt, very thick, solid, greenish-pallid, 

 not becoming violet ; flesh greenish-white. Cortina scanty, whitish 

 or pallid-green. Gills emarginate, not crowded, when full grown 

 rather distant, somewhat crisped, yellow-olivaceous or somewhat 

 olivaceous, darker and cinereous-olivaceous at the base. 



Commonly sporadic. Taste mild. 



In beech woods. King's Cliffe. 



Name — npaa-ov, leek. Leek-green. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 25. Hym. Eur. p. 

 348. Berk. Out. p. 186. C. Hbk. n. 500. Quel. Grev. t. 106. /. 2. Ag. 

 Schceff. t. 218. 



25. C. scaurus Fr. — Pileus commonly 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.), very 

 rarely 10 cent. (4 in.) broad, tiger-spotted, of a peculiar tawny- 

 fuliginous colour, when dry more tawny, fleshy, convex then 

 plane, depressed when old, viscous, smooth, the thi7i margin at 

 length slightly st?'iate; flesh thin, soft. Stem solid, soft and 

 spongy (especially the bulb) with age, equally attenuated upwards 

 from the marginato-bulbous base (more than 2.5 cent., 1 in. thick 

 at the base, 8 mm., 4 lin. at the apex), fibrillose or striate, azure- 

 blue or olivaceous then becoming white, and also yellowish when 

 old. Cortina fibrillose, somewhat green. Gills attenuato-ad- 

 nexed, rounded, thin, very crowded, 2-4 mm. (1-2 lin.) broad, 

 broader (6 mm., 3 lin.) in front, normally purplish-olivaceous, 

 but varying pure olivaceous and even fuliginous. 



Odour and taste mild. It differs from all neighbouring species in the very 

 crowded and very narrow gills. The bulb here and there vanishes. 



In woods. Rare. Oct.-Nov. 



Stem purplish in my specimens with a red tinge on the edge of the bulb. 

 M.J.B. Name — scaurus, with projecting ankles. Of the bulb. Fr. Monogr. 

 ii. p. 25. Hym. Eur. p. 349. Icon. t. 146. f. 1. Berk. Out. p. 186. C. Hbk. 

 n. 499. S. My col. Scot. n. 456. Quel. Grev. t. 107. f. 2. 



ttt Elastici. 

 * Gills whitish, then clay-coloured, &>c. 



26. C. cumatilis Fr. — Pileus 7.5 cent. (3 in.) broad, of a very 

 charming violet or purple-violet colour, convex, obtuse, not de- 



