CORTTNARIUS. 4 1 



the pileus ; date-brown, brick-colour, copper-brown. There is a variety (in Telamonia. 

 drier weather) with the gills rufescent-flesh-colour. Small forms changed in 

 colour occur. The pileus like that of C. scutulatus, elatior, &c. varies pitted- 

 wrinkled and ribbed from the centre. 



In mixed woods. Frequent. Aug.-Oct. 



Name — torvus, savage. Growing in wild places. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 74. 

 Hym. Eur. p. 376. Ico?i. t. 157. f. 1. B. & Br. n. 1353. C. Hbk. n. 524. 

 S. My col. Scot. n. 485. Bull. t. 600./. Q.R.S. Kalch. t. 21./. 1. 



83. C. impennis Fr. — Pileus 5-10 cent. (2-4 in.) broad, at first 

 almost umber, then brick-colour, changing colour and dingy, 

 somewhat equally fieshy, very obtuse, co?ivex, smooth, when young 

 silky only round the margin, at length cracked ; flesh pallid. 

 Stem 5-10 cent. (2-4 in.) long, 1-2.5 cent. ()4-i in.) thick, solid, 

 cyli?idrical, scarcely bulbous, not clothed with scales, pale, becom- 

 ing violet at the apex and internally azure-blue, girt towards the 

 apex with a white zone formed of the veil, and furnished with a 

 cortina (of the same colour). Gills at first adnate, then emar- 

 ginate, distant, rather thick, at first intensely a?td brightly vio- 

 laceous and somewhat purplish, but immediately changing colour 

 and becoming watery ferruginous. 



The pileus does not become hoary. Approaching C. torvus in colours, but 

 much inferior, certainly different in the stem not being sheathed with the veil, 

 in the pileus being smooth, &c. In a young state the colour is almost that of 

 Ag. butyraceus. 



Among" dead leaves. Bomere. 



Name — penna, a feather. Without feathers. Smooth, contrasted with 

 C. plumiger. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 75. Hym. Eur. p. 376. Icon. t. iS7-f' 2 * 

 B. & Br. n. 1880. 



84. 0. plumiger Fr. — Pileus fuscous, somewhat olivaceous 

 when moist, brick-tan when dry, hygrophanous, slightly fleshy, 

 conical when yoinig, then campanulate, with a broad obtuse very 

 prominent umbo, when more expanded as much as 7.5 cent. 

 (3 in.), and often cracked, dry, clothed with dense white fioccoso- 

 plumose scales, which are sometimes erect and squarrose, some- 

 times (after showers) adpressed and silky. Stem 7.5-10 cent. 

 (3-4 in.) long, 2.5 cent. (1 in.) thick at the base, 10 mm. (5 lin.) 

 at the apex, solid, remarkably clavate, pale, internally watery 

 whitish. Veil floccoso-scaly on the stem, somewhat in the form of 

 a ring at the apex, shining white. Gills adnate, scarcely crowded 

 broad, at first violaceous, soon of a watery then of a pure cinna- 

 mon, edge quite entire, of the same colour or clay. 



Handsome. 



