Cortinarius 



AGARICACE/E 



225 



continuous, not hygrophanous. Stem fleshy, somewhat bulbous. 



(Fig. 55-) 



Handsome and easily distinguished. Species 1035 — 1057 



Fig. 55. — Cortinarius {Inolirma) violaceus Fr. 



One-half natural size. 

 a, section of mature example ; b, young state. 



Gills at first white or pallid. 



Gills ', Veil and Stem violaceous. 



Gills or Veil cinnamon, red or ochreous. 



Gills or Veil dark, fuscous, olivaceous. 



1035—1038 

 1039—1045 

 1046—1052 

 1053—1057 



1035. C. argutus Fr. (from the graceful habit ; argutus, graceful) a b. 

 P. expanded, gibbous then subdepressed, ochreous. St. solid, 



ventricose, fibroso-squamose, yellowish-white. G. adnate, 

 rounded, subdistant, white clay-colour. 



Woods, amongst leaves, oak. Oct. 4J x 3J X £ in. 



1036. C. argentatus Fr. (from the silvery white pileus and stem ; 



argentum, silver) a b c. 

 P. convexo-plane, broadly gibbous ; marg. pale lilac then dun. 

 St. solid, slightly attenuate upwards, yellowish at base. G. 

 emarginate, crowded, becoming watery-cinnamon or sienna. 



Taste insipid; odour weak to strong, sweet, not fetid. Woods. Sept. -Oct. 

 5 X 3 £ X 5 in. Var. pinetorum Cooke, smaller and more graceful, odour 

 faint. Woods, pine. 



1037. C. opimus Fr. (from its obese appearance ; opimus, fruitful) a. 

 P. convexo-plane, hard, dry, wavy-deformed, rimoso-rivulose, 



white, covered with short ochreous down. St. solid, hard, 

 subturbinate, white-fibrillose with Co., base rooting. G. 

 emarginate, subcrowded, whitish then tan. 

 Solitary. Woods. Autumn. 4$ x ii X \\ in. 



