CLASSIFICATION OF AOAKK'S 34] 



is covered by the remains of a greenish or whitish, tliin, universal 

 veil, l»n 1 1» l -2 cm. i hick. SPORES broadly elliptical, rough, 8 LO \ 5-6 

 micr. ODOR and TASTE mil. I. 



Gregarious. Among mosses in cedar and balsam Bwamps. Bay 

 View, Michigan, and North Elba, New fork. August. Rare. 



This was considerd a new Bpecies in the "Key" (Jour. <>r Mycol. 

 \'.',, \k .">.">, I'.miTi as C. olivaceoide8. Ii agrees well with the Friesian 

 Bpecies as characterized in Monographia. In the Mill Report of the 

 .Mich. Acad. Sci., p. 32, ii is reported as c. olivaceus Pk. C. "lira 

 <■■ us l'k. has larger spores and belongs to the section Phlegmacium. 

 C. herpeticu8 appears to be close to C. scaurus Ft. 



323. Cortinarius olivaceo-stramineus KaulT. 



Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, VqI. 32, L905. 



Illustrations: Ibid, Pig. ::. p. .".(i!). 



•lour, of Mycol., Vol. L3, PI. 95, 1!i<>7. 

 Mycological Bull., Vol 5, Fig. 243, p. 317, L907. 



PILEUS I 7 cm. broad, broadly convex, slightly depressed in the 

 center when expanded, pale straw-yellow with <nt olivaceous tinge, 

 slightly rufous-tinged in age, glabrous or silky-fibrillose, disk some- 

 times covered with minute scales, viscid from <i gelatinous /><llici<. 

 margin incurved at first, shreds of the cortina attached i<> it on 

 expanding. FLESB very thick, abruptly thin on margin, white, 

 dingy-yellowish in age, soon soft <i>nl spongy. <!lld.s sinuate-ad* 

 nexed, rather narrow, crowded, whitish <>t first, then pale cinnamon, 

 edge serratulate and paler. STEM 6-8 can. Long, 5-18 mm. thick, 

 spongy ami soft within, sometimes becoming hollow, white and 

 pruinate above the fibrillose remains of the cortina, with </ slight, 

 subobsolete, submarginate bulb from whose margin arises the 

 copious white CORTINA ; bulb when young covered by a thin 

 universal veil of the same color as the pileus. SPORES ventricose 

 elliptical, with stout apiculus, almost smooth, granular within. 10-12 

 x 5.5-6.5 micr. BASIDIA about 38x9 micr. ODOR and TASTE 

 mild. 



Subcaespitose. I m the ground in mixed ami frondose woods. 

 August-September. Ann Arbor. Rather rare. 



It is with some hesitation placed iii this Bection, as the universal 

 veil is ma well developed. The bulb is at first slightly marginate 

 and the cortina is attached to it ; later the hull* almost disappears 



