CLASSIFICATION OF AGARICS 391 



ing with a micaceous sheen. FLESH thin, dark grayish-violet a1 

 first, soon pallid, Dot truly hygrophanous. 1 1 1 DLS adnate a1 ftrsl be- 

 coming Binuate-emarginate, not broad, close. at first caesious, violet 

 <>>■ grayish purplish, then alutaceous-brown, edge lacerate-crenulate. 

 STEM ;n first clavate and l" L8 mm. thick, then elongated and 

 slender, 5 l<» mm. thick, I 9 cm. long, spongy-stuffed, at first violet, 

 soon dingy pallid, or only the apes violaceous-tinged, gray-violel 

 within, when fresh dotted with dingy ochraceous to yellowish Bcales, 

 glabresceni or fibrillose, soon infested with larvae, elastic on drying. 

 si'( >RES almosl spherical, rough punctate, 7 '.» \ 67 micr. BAS1 DIA 

 ::i \ 7 micr., I spored. ODOB and TASTE mild. 



Gregarious. <>u moisi debris and humus, mosses, etc., in beech 

 and hemlock woods. New Richmond. September, [nfrequently 

 found, probably not uncommon in the north. 



This agrees exactly with the species around Stockholm, where I 

 first saw it. It is sometimes variable especially ;is to shades of color 

 and the presence or absence of the dingy yellowish remnants of an 

 evanescent universal veil. When mature these little patches on the 

 stem are scarcely visible, in the fully developed condition the vio- 

 laceous colors have almost or entirely disappeared from the gills and 

 stem. The flesh is moist or shot through with watery streaks when 

 fresh but it is not truly hygrophanous. C. deceptions KauiV. is very 

 close, but is truly hygrophanous and the color is at first deeper. 

 C. lepidopus Cke. is apparently also one of its forms. Cortinarius 

 sitmuUms Pk. (N. Y. State Mus. Bull. 2, 1887) is another closely 

 allied species and perhaps identical. 



393. Cortinarius spilomeus Fr. 



Syst. Myc. L821. 



Illustrations: Pries, hones. PI. 154, Pig. 3. 

 Ricken, Die Blatterpilze, PI. 17. Fig. 2. 



••l'l U'J'S l'o cm. broad, convex to expanded, fuscescent, rufescent 

 or argillaceous, gibbous, dry. glabrescent, fading. PLESB rather 

 thin. GILLS emarginate or adnate, crowded, thin, narrow, caesious 

 or violaceous at first, a1 length watery cinnamon, edge very entire. 

 STEM 1 !> cm. long, 6-12 mm. thick, subequal, stuffed to hollow, 

 whitish, tinged lilac or violaceous at first, variegated by reddish or 

 fulvous, delicately apprrxxnl s-uficonmitric scales. 



••\'er\ elegant. The stem is colored similarly to that of C bolaris, 



