CLASSIFICATION OF AGARICS 395 



406. Cortinarius croceofolius Pk. 



N. V. State Mils. Bull. [50, 191 1. 

 Illustrations: [bid, PI: VI, Pig. I 8. 



"PILEUS 2.5-5 tin. broad, broadly convex or nearly plane, obtuse 

 or obtusely ambonate, dry, slightly fibrillose especially on the mar- 

 gin, brownish-cinnamon, often paler <>r saffron yellow <>n the margin. 

 FLESH thin, pale yellow, grayish or dingy when dry. QILLS thin, 

 close, saffron-yellow verging to orange at first, then brownish-cin- 

 namon, often yellow, crenulate on margin. STEM 2.5 I cm. long, 

 equal or slightly thickened a1 the base, fibrillose above, saffron-yel- 

 low, hollow. CORTINA concolor. SPORES broadly ellipsoid, 

 6-7 \ I 5 m ii-r. 



•\Mossy ground on the borders or in woods of spruce and balsam 

 fir. New York. September." 



This approaches C. cinnamomeus in some of its forms excepl that 

 tlic gills are more deeply colored. 



407. Cortinarius malicorius Fr. 

 Epicrisis, L836-38. 

 Illustration: Fries, [cones, PI. 155, Fig. 1. 



PILEUS 2-6 cm. broad, obtusely convex t<> subexpanded, fulvous 

 or tawny-fulvous, tinged golden yellow, silky -tomentose, subzonate 

 in age. FLESH intensely olivaceous when fresh, scissile, thick on 

 disk. GILLS sinuate or adnate-subdecurrent, close, uo1 broad, 

 rusty-yellow thru dark golden-fulvous. STEM 5-7 cm. long, 6-12 

 nun. thick, equal <>r subequal, becoming hollow, fibrillose from the 

 orange-fulvous cortina, tinged olivaceous, soon yellow-fulvous, ot red- 

 dish-stained, olivaceous within. SPORES shorl elliptical, Blightly 

 rough, 6-7 a t-4.5 micr. ODOR ami TASTK iniM. 



Gregarious. Under hemlock and cedar in swampy woods. Sanli 

 Ste. Marie. August. Rare. 



The Michigan plants had all the characters attributed to the 

 species by Fries. Tln> flesh of the growing plant is distinctive. In the 

 pileus it is intensely olivaceous i" greenish, bordered by a narrow- 

 zone of yellow or fulvous nexl to the surface; In the stem the axis 

 soon breaks down Leaving a I ubular cavity, the rest of the flesh being 



yellowish olivaceous, bordered by the narrow. Yellow cnticnhir zone 



