CLASSIFICATION OF AGARK 



broad, close, sulphur-yellow at first, finally ochraceouscinnamon, 

 edge becoming eroded. STEM short, 3-5 cm. long, 8 18 mm. thick, 

 dry, pair, sulphur-yellow, sometime! merely yellowish white, yellow- 

 ish within, sometimes »• pressed, Bubfibrillose then glabrescent and 



shining, eqnal above the shallow, marginate-depressed bulb which 

 is yellowish beneath and attached to ;i yeUow mycelium. CORTINA 

 Bcanty, whitish. SPORES almond-shaped, Blightly rough, rentri- 

 cose, s-iiix-l-.V) micr. BASIDIA 30x7-8 micr., L-spored. ODOR 

 none. TASTE mild, of pellicle ao1 bitter. 



Solitary or gregarious. <>n the ground among humus, in frondo 

 or mixed woods. Ann Arbor, Bay View, New Richmond. Septem- 

 ber-< tetober. I nfrequent. 



When young the whole planl Is pale sulphur-yellow, sometimes 

 paler hut uniform in color, in this respecl it differs markedly 

 from C fulmineus as described. The figures of the unpublished 

 plates of Fries, however, show a niiich less orange or fulvous plant 



than is indicated by the descriptions. It is paler than C. elegant- 

 ioides and lacks the bitterish taste of the pellicle. In the list of 

 the 9th Mich. Acad. Rep. it was referred to C. sulphurmus Quel., 

 which differs, in the sense of Ricken, in having much larger apores 

 Out' variety agrees quite closely in the size of the spores with the 

 European C fulmineus as given by Ricken and Saccardo. 



340. Cortinarius elegantior Fr. var. 



Epicrisis, L836-38. 



Illustration: Ricken, Die Blatterpilze, PL 38, Pig. 2. 



FILET'S 7-1.") cm. broad, compact, firm, convex then expanded, 

 at length wavy and depressed, tawny-yellow to ferruginous, gla 

 brous, even, with a very viscid, separable pellicle. FLESH whitish 

 or tinged ochraceous, thick. GILLS adnate becoming emarginate, 

 close, rather broad, yellowishrpallid at first, at length rusty-cinna- 

 mon, edge serrate-eroded. STEM I 6 cm. long, LO-25 nun. thick, 

 solid, pallid, becoming rusty-yellow, fibrillose from the abundant 

 cortina, equal above the marginate bulb which is scarcely depn 

 cd, becomes rusty-yellow and is attached to a yellowish mycelium 

 which forms mycorhiza. SPORES almond-shaped, elliptical, tuber 

 culate, 12-14x7-8 micr. ODOR and TASTE mild. 



Subcaespitose or gregarious. On the ground, among leaves, in 

 frondose woods. Ann Arbor. October. Rare. 



