Cortinarius AGARIC ACE^: 221 



1014. C. deeoloratus Fr. (from the change of colour in the bibulous 



pileus, drying lighter in patches) a b c. 

 P. campanulato-expanded, obtuse, clay-colour or tan, corrugate 



when old. St. whitish. G. emarginate, adnate, or decurrent. 

 Taste acrid. Woods, birch, pine, beech. Aug.-Oct. Protean, varying 



large and small. Large 3^ x 2>i X t i n « Small § — if x if X J in. 



1015. C. deeolorans Fr. (from the gills, soon changing colour from 



purple to cinnamon, but unchanging when bruised) a b. 



P. convexo-flat, yellow ; marg. fringed with Co. St. shining- 

 white, zoned. G. emarginate or sinuato-adnexed, crowded, 

 thin. Flesh white. 



Woods, fir. Sept.-Oct. 2§ x 3^ X § in. Must not be confounded 

 with 981. 



1016. C. porphyropus Fr. (from the purple stem; Gr. porphureos, 



purple, potts, a foot) a b c. 



P. convexo-plane, innately streaked, livid brownish-clay. St. 



purple, becoming whitish, but again lilac or purple if bruised. 



G. adnato-emarginate or rounded, at length cinnamon, but 



again purple if bruised. Flesh deep purple. 



Taste insipid ; odour in drying sometimes of mice. Woods. Sept.-Oct. 

 2l X 2£ x \ in. 



1017. C. eroceoeseruleus Fr. (from the saffron-gills and blue-purple 



pileus ; croceus, saffron, cceruleus, azure) a b. 

 P. gibbous, plane or depressed. St. naked, whitish or pale 



purple, zoned. G. emarginate. Flesh pallid. 

 Odour disagreeable. Woods, beech. Oct. ij X if X T 3 5 in. 



1018. C. coruseans Fr. (from the glittering pileus; coruscans, 



glittering) a. 

 P. obtuse, flat, ochreous, often spotted tawny. St. solid fibrilloso- 



striate, white. G. plano-decurrent. 

 Taste and odour obsolete. Copses, beech. 5J X 4J X £ in. 



1019. C. papulosus Fr. (from the granular patches on the pileus ; 



papulosus, full of pimples) a. 

 P. convexo-plane, honey-tan; mid. glabrous, ferruginous-patchy 



when dry. St. solid, fibrillose, white. G. adnato-decurrent. 

 Woods, pine. Oct.-Nov. 2^ x 3§ X £ in. 



1020. C. vespertinus Fr. (from the dull colours, as of evening, 



vesper) a b. 

 P. convexo-plane, pale umber ; marg. fringed with Co. St. solid, 



fibrillose, white. G. emarginate, broad, crowded, umber, 



shaded olive. 

 Woods, oak. Oct. 2f x 4 X | in. 



1021. C. olivaseens Fr. (from the olive-greenish pileus) a c. 



P. convexo-plane, glabrous; marg. striate, fringed with Co. 



St. tan-white. G. emarginate or adfixed, olive-brown. Flesh 



yellowish near surface of P. and St. 

 Taste acrid. Damp places amongst pines. Sept. i\ X 3^ X ^ in. 



