CLASSIFICATION OF AGARICS 



** Gills without violaceous or purph tints at thi first. (Likewise 



pileus, flesh and stem. | 



368. Cortinarius bolaris I'r. 



Syst. Myc, L821. 



Illustrations: Cooke. 111.. PL 760. 



Gillet, Champignons de France, No. L99. 

 Quelet, in Grevillea, Vol. V, PL TO. 

 Bicken, Die Blatterpilze, PL Hi. Fig. l'. 

 Plate LXXVI1 of tins Report. 



PILEUS 3-6 cm. broad, cOnvex-ex pa tided, obsoletely nmhonate, 

 variegated by oppressed, pink-red, saffronrred or cinnabar red, 

 hairy scales on a white ground, dry, fading, the thin incurved mar- 

 gin surpassing the jjills. FLESH white, tinged creamy-yellow, 

 thin. GILLS adnate, close, medium broad, distinct, pallid, soon 

 pair cinnamon. STEM 5-6 cm., long, 5-10 nun. thick, tapering up- 

 ward and sub equal, stuffed then hollow, covered like the pileus by 

 red, fibrillosc-iiairi/, oppressed scales, sometimes subglabreecent, 

 flesh becoming saffron or reddish when bruised. CORTINA white. 

 SPOKES broadly oval to Bubsphoeroid, scarcely rough, 6-7x5-5.5 

 micr. BASH HA 30x6 micr., t-spored. ODOR and TASTE Done. 

 MYCELIUM red. 



Gregarious or subcaespitose in the conifer regions of the State, 



in mixed WOOds Of hemlock and beech. Bay View, New Richmond. 



August-September, [nfrequent. 



This Cortinarius is known by its delicate hairy-fibrillose orna- 

 mentations on the cap and stem; these are Baffron-red or darker 

 in contrast with the whitish or yellowish flesh beneath. The cap 

 is dry. not hygrophanous, bu1 the fibrillose scales appear as if 



glued thereon. This must not lie eotd'nsed with C. rubripeS which is 



markedly different, usually very glabrous on the pileus and much 

 larger. The figures referred to above illustrate our plant well, ex 

 cept that of Bicken which emphasizes the scales and shows a stem 

 tapering downwards. The decoration on the stem apparently 

 represents the remnants of a universal veil. 



