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the plant is much Larger and Btouter and th<- Bporea are Larger. It 

 is well marked by its grayish color." The color of the young gills 

 distinguishes it from C. adustus and C. scutulatus. h Beems t<> 

 approach C. canescens in all its characters excepl the Lack of a 

 peronate stem. 



419. Cortinarius subflexipes I'k. 



N. V. State Mns. Rep. U. L888. 



PILEUS L-2 cm. broad, '-mitral then campanulate and subacutely 

 ombonate, glabrous, hygrophanous, blackish-brown and the thin 

 margin incurved and whitened by the veil when moist, sub- 

 ochraceous when dry. FLESH concolor, thin. GILLS adnexed, 

 thin, close, rather broad, ventricose, at first clay-color tinged vio- 

 laceous then cinnamon. STEM 3-6 cm. long, 2-4 mm. thick, equal, 

 slender, flexuous, silky-shining, violaceous within, subannulate by 

 the whitish universal veil, pale violaceous when young, especially 

 above the annulus, pallid <»r reddish when old. SPORES narrow 

 elliptical, scarcely rough, 6 7.5 \ 3.5 I micr. 



Thin woods. North Elba, Adirondack Mountains and Catskill 

 Mountains, New York. September. 



Hardly related to C. fleaipes, from which Peck separated it be- 

 cause of its mi. re glabrous pileus and differenl gills. It has the 

 stature of C. fuscouiolaccus. 



420. Cortinarius flexipes 1'r. minor 



Syst. Myc, 1821. 



Illustrations: Kick. mi. Biatterpilze, PI. L9, Pig. I. 

 Quelet, Grevillea, Vol. VIII, PI. 113, Fig. 3. 



PILEUS 1 -3 cm. broad, at first conical thru conic-campanulate, 

 hygrophanous, ground-color cinnamon-brown, densely covered with 

 shining grayish-white subagglutinate fibrillose scales up to tin- 

 apex of the acute umbo, scales small, superficial and easily ml. hid 

 off. FLESH at the very first violaceous, soon pallid or brownish. 

 ('.ills ailn.itr rniaririnatc. ,ii first or when moist walnut-brown 

 (Ridg.) with a purplish tint, soon sudan-brown (Ridg.), broad, 

 close to subdistant, edge entire, at lirst whitish. STEM 3.5-5 cm. 

 long, 2-4 mm. thick. a1 firsl strict then flexuous, stuffed then hollow, 

 dark violaceous at apex, soon grayish-brown, annulate by a distinct 



