CLASSIFICATION OK AOAKK'S 385 



colored pileus and differently colored gills. CORTINA whitish- 

 cinereons." 



383. Cortinarius clintonianus l'k. 

 X. v. State -Miis. Rep. 26, 1ST!. 



"PILEUS 2-5 cm. broad, convex to expanded, with a few ap- 

 pressed silky tiinils [pale dingy brownish-tan), more or Less tinged 

 with gray. <JlU>s close, moderately broad, dull-violaceous at first, 

 then cinnamon. STEM 5-7 cm. long, rather slender, I <"> nun. thick, 

 tapering upward from a subclavate base, violaceous above, silky 

 fibrillose. SPORES broadlj elliptical to subglobose, rough-pund 

 ate, 7-8 x <;-7 micr." 



Ground in woods. New fork State. September-October. A re 

 vised description is given above, from the study of the type-specimens 

 and the accompanying colored figures. The cap is said to be "red 

 <lish brown," but if so. the colors of the drawing are very pale. 



**(!ills at first j/rlloic, clay- yellow, or pale cinnamon, (Becom- 

 ing rnstv-cinnainon or waterv-einnamon in age.) 



384. Cortinarius callisteus Fr. 



Syst. Myc, 1821. 



Illustrations: Fries, [cones, PI. 153, Fig. 2. 

 Cooke. 111., PI. 771 and 864. 



PILEUS 4-8 cm. broad, convex to subcampanulate, subumbonate, 

 moist hnt not hygrophanous, <l<</) chrome-yellow to ochraceous- 

 fulvous, not fading, innately silky, glabrescent, margin at firsl in- 

 curved and silky. FLESH thick, thin on margin, whitish or tinged 

 yellowish. GILLS adnate, subdistant, moderately broad, yellow at 



first then argillaceous to rusty -cinnamon, edge entire. STEM 1 '•' 



cm. long, clavate-bulbous, 8-10 mm. thick above, 2 to '■'> times as thick 

 below, tapering upward, firm, solid, yellow (luteus) within and 

 without, streaked longtitudinally with fulvous innate fibrils. COR- 

 TINA fugacious, sometimes adhering at firsl to the margin of the 



pileus, yellowish-white. SPORES elliptical-oval, 7-8.5x5-5.5 micr.. 

 rough. <>IM>K weak. BUbnitrOUS. 



Gregarious. <>n the ground in mixed hemlock, pine and oak 

 woods. Ithaca. New York. September. Rare. 



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