CORTINARIUS. 



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Tribe IV. DERMOCYBE (5e>a, skin ; k%M, a head). Pileus Dermocybe. 

 thinly and equally fleshy, at first silky with somewhat innate 

 villous down, but becoming smooth 

 when old, dry and not hygropha- 

 nous. Flesh watery when moist or 

 coloured. Stem equal or attenuat- 

 ed, externally more rigid, elastic or 

 brittle, internally stuffed or hollow. 

 Veil single, fibrillose, forming a zone 

 in C. caninus. A natural group, 

 easily distinguished from Inolomata 

 by the tJiinness and substance of the 

 pileus and by the stem; and from the 

 following subgenera by the pileus 

 not being nioist or hygropha?ious, and 

 by its short floccose or atomate cover- 

 ing, its brighter colour, &°c. Fr. 

 Hym. Eur. p. 366. 



The species of this subgenus are 

 very changeable, and not easily de- 

 fined on account of the changeable colour of the gills. It com- 

 prehends two primary types ; first that of C. anonialus with the 

 flesh of the pileus white, and secondly that of C. cinnamomeus 

 with the flesh scissile and coloured. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 57. 



XLIII. Cortinarius {Dermocybe) 

 cinnamomeus. One-third nat- 

 ural size. 



* Gills at first whitish or pallid. 

 ** Gills at first violaceous, becoming purple. 

 *** Gills brightly cinnamon, red, yellow. 

 coloured. Elegant. 



**** Olivaceous, veil dingy pallid or fuscous. 



Stem and fibrillose cortina 

 Pileus not torn into scales. 



* Gills at first whitish or pallid. 



57. C. ochroleucus Fr. — Pileus 5 cent. (2 in.) broad, pale-white, 

 fleshy, especially at the disc, broadly campanulate then expanded 

 and somewhat gibbous, delicately and slightly silky, then becom- 

 ing smooth, even; flesh firm, white. Stem 7.5 cent. (3 in.) long, 

 12 mm. {% in.) thick, solid, ve?itricose, naked, white, fibrillose at 

 the apex with the cortina. Gills broader behind, adnexed, then 

 separating-free, 6 mm. (3 lin.) broad, crowded, clay-colour then 

 ochraceous. 



Odour none, taste ?-e?narkable, bitterish, not unpleasant. B. larger and 

 more robust. Pileus 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.), somewhat obtuse, ochrey-white. 

 Stem as much as 2.5 cent. (1 in.) thick, attenuated upwards. Gills adnate, 

 pallid clay then cinnamon. 



