CLASSIFICATION OF AGARICS 7fl 



The original description has been completed i>\ a study of tin- 

 type specimens and of the drawings made by Dr. Peck. The sheath 



on the stein is while and much as in ('. flavifolius, Inn the Spores 



are much larger. 



373. Cortinarius canescens Pk. 

 N. V. State Rep. 42, 1SS9. 



"PILEUS 5-7.5 cm. broad. suhcampanulate or Convex, 0btU8e or 



somewhat umbonate, silky or scaly with innate grayish fibrils, 

 whitish gray when young, tinged with yellow or rufous hoes when 

 old. GILLS thin, subdistant, rounded behind and adnezed, pallid 



at first. STEM 5 II) em. long, 8-12 nun. thick, solid, white, equal or 

 tapering upward from a large, soft, spongy, cl<i rate-thickened base, 

 peronate and subanrmlate by the silky-fibrillose, white veil" 

 SPORES elliptical, subinequilateral, slightly rough. 10-12x5.5-6.5 

 micr. ODOR not marked. TASTE unpleasant." 



Gregarious. In spruce groves. New York. September. 



Peck states that it is distinct from its allies by the absence of 

 violaceous hues in the young gills. The pileus of the dried type 

 specimens is of a dark smoky gray color. 



374. Cortinarius squarrosus ( lements 

 Botanical Survey of Neb.. 1901. 



"PILEUS 2.5-3 cm. broad, campanulate then convex, dry, sub- 

 umbonate. clothed on disk by dense, squarrose, umber scales, fasci- 

 culate-fibrillose on the margin, pallid amber. GILLS slightly ad- 

 nate, ventricose, sometimes uncinate, fulvous to umber. STEM ■"■ I 

 mi. long, 5 nun. thick, subequal. hollow, fibrous-fleshy, clothed with 

 fulvous-umber, subsquarrose fibrils. CORTINA fibrillose, amber, 



fugacious. SPOKES irregularly elliptical, smooth. 12x6 micr. 



"Among vegetation on the ground in woods. Nebraska." 



This species approaches c. pholideus and ('. squammulosus, but 



the spores are larger and the gills are not described with any purpl- 

 ish lint when young. It is a rather small hioloma. 



