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AGARICACE/E 



Cortinarius 



1126. C. paleaeeus Fr. (from the chaffy white scales of the pileus ; 



pa/en, chaff) a b c. 



P. convex, expanded, acutely umbonate, fuscous to greyish ; mid. 

 umber; marg. paler or whitish. St. fistulose, floccoso-scaly, 

 fuscous within and without. A. and 1-7 zones whitish. G. 

 adnate, crowded, grey pallid to cinnamon. 



Odour weak. Woods, beech, moist places. Sept. -Nov. ij x 2§ x J in. 



1127. C. iris Mass. (from the rainbow-like colours ; iris, the rainbow) a. 

 P. conical, expanded, umbonate, pale ochreous-brown, densely 



white-fibrillose ; marg. silky, splitting. St. stuffed to solid, 

 clavate, densely fibrillose, violet, then pale above the fibrillose, 

 bright-brown A., orange-brown at base within and without. 

 G. sinuato-adnexed, subcrowded, dull ochreous to orange- 

 brown. 

 Solitary, or in clusters of two to four. Woods. Oct. 1 J x 3 X £ in. 



1128. C. Cookei Quel, (after Dr. M. C. Cooke) a b. 



P. conical, hemispherical, umbonate, tawny-yellow ; marg. woolly, 

 white. St. stuffed, pale yellowish with 4-5 floccose yellow 

 zones. G. adnate, violet to reddish and rust-colour. 



Woods, fir. J x i§ X xV in. 



Subgenus 6. Hydrocybe. 



(From the moist or hygrophanous pileus ; Gr. hudor, water, 



kude, a head.) 



Veil thin, fibrillose, rarely collapsing and forming an irregular 

 zone on the stem. Pileus smooth or only covered with white 



Fig. 58. — Cortinarius (Hydrocybe) saturninus Fr., and section. 

 One-half natural size. 



superficial fibrils, not viscid, but moist when fresh, changing colour 

 when dry ; flesh very thin, scissile, rarely more compact in the middle. 



