388 THE AGARICACEAE OF MICHIGAN 



margin silky-fibrillose. FLESH white. GILLS adnexed, rounded 

 behind, thin, close, rather broad, whitish at first, then subochraceous. 

 STEM :!-7 cm. long, 8-12 mm. thick, subequal above, with a clavate- 

 bulbons base, silky-fibrillose, floccose-villose at apex, subannulate, 

 white." SPORES narrowly elliptical, pale, smooth, 8-9.5x44.5 



micr. 



"Mossy ground in open places. Catskill Mountains, New York. 

 The caespitose mode of growth, yellowish pileus, pale gills and 

 white flesh distinguish the species." 



389. Cortinarius modestus Pk. 



X. Y. State Mus. Rep. 26, 1874. 



"PILEUS 2-4 cm. broad, convex to expanded, subfibrillose, even 

 or slightly rugulose-wrinkled, alutaceous. FLESH white. GILLS 

 close adnexed, moderately broad, nearly plane, pallid at first, then 

 cinnamon. STEM 5 cm. long, 4 mm. thick above, clavate-bulbous, 

 subfibrillose, hollow or stuffed with white pith, concolor." SPOKES 

 broadly elliptical, 7-8.5 x 5-6 micr. 



"(J round in woods, New York. September. Distinguished from 

 ('. clintonianus by its paler color, more bulbous stem and entire- ab- 

 sence of the violaceous tinge of the gills." An examination of speci- 

 mens on the sheets with the type, showed that several of the larger 

 specimens had different spores and could not belong there. It 

 is sometimes caespitose. In size it approaches the Dermocybes, and 

 appears to be close to G. alUdifolius Pk. In a letter, preserved at 

 the New York Botanical Garden, Peck states that it is near C. 

 mtrusus but has different spores. 



390. Cortinarius gracilis Pk. 

 N. Y. State Mus. Bull. 2, 1887. 



PILEUS 1.5-4 cm. broad (occasionally up to 7 cm.), conical at 

 first and Roods brown (Eidg.) then campanulate and margin de- 

 curved, with a prominent subacute umbo, pinkish-cinnamon to light 

 vinaceouscinndmon (Ridg.) when drying, subhygrophanous, even, 

 glabrescent, margin at first incurved aud white-cortinate, elsewhere 

 silky-shining with innate white fibrils. FLESH very thin except 

 on center, concolor. GILLS adnate then emarginate, moderately 

 broad, close, pallid at first, soon cinnamon to cinnamon-brown 

 I Ridg.), edge at length crenulate-eroded. STEM 5-15 cm. long, elon- 



