CLASSIFICATION OF AGARK 

 361. Cortinarius ophiopus l'k. 

 N. V. Btate Mus. Rep. 30, L878. 



"PILEUS 5-10 cm. broad, convex or subcampanulate, then »\ 



panded, b stimes irregular, viscid, glabrous, reddish-yellow, the 



paler margin Bometlmes roughened by adhering patches of the 

 whitish veil. FLESH white. tilU.s close, rather broad, brown 

 ish-cinnamon, edge often eroded. STEM LO-15 cm. long, 8-12 nun. 

 thick, equal, ion;/ and usually much bent <>r variously curved, at 

 first shaggy-scaly from the subconcentrically arranged fragments 

 nf the copious veil, white or yellowish. SPORES elliptical, in- 

 equilateral, 1 1-1- x 6-7 iniri-. 



I >n the ground, among leaves in woods. Maryland. September. 



The dried type-specimens have much the appearance of C. corru- 

 gatus in stature ami colors, with a yellowish stem; the spores, how 

 ever, an- smaller, ami the bulb seems in be Lacking. 



362. Cortinarius communis Pk. 

 X. V. Siate Cab. Rep. 23, 1872. 



PILEUS 2-6 cm. broad, convex-expanded, obtuse, whitish with <i 

 gray tinge <tt first, becoming yellowish or brown in age. subviscid, 

 sometimes reddish, glabrous, margin decorated al first by white fib- 

 rils of the cortina. GILLS emarginate, at length subdecurrent by 

 tooth, medium broad, close, whiU to pallid at first, then pale ochra- 

 ceous-cinnamon. STEM 4-G cm. Long, l 6 mm. thick, stuffed to hol- 

 low, equal or nearly so. curved at base, mealy al apex. SUbfiblill08< 



white then vellowishstai I. SPORES ventricose-elliptical, 9-10.5 



x5-6micr. Smooth. TASTE slightly bitterish. CORTINA white. 



Gregarious. On grassy ".round, in frondose woods. May. Ann 

 Arbor, Infrequent. 



Tin- spores and gills are pale brown at maturity, and in this \> 

 spect depart from the characters of the genus. As Peck has pointed 

 out (N. Y. State Mus. Rep. 30) it is much like Pholiota in these 

 characters. The cortina, however, forms do annulus. The plants 



appear early with us. while Peck reports it for September October. 



SUBGENUS TNOLOMA: Pileus and stem neither viscid nor 

 hyproghanous. Pileus at first innately scaly, ftbrillose or silky; 

 flesh rather thick. STEW stout, the base enlarged and tapering up 

 ward. i. e., clavate-bulbous. Universal veil present or Lacking. 



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