ll2 THE AGARICACEAE OF MICHIGAN 



white annul us above the middle, concentrically subannulate below 

 will! white flecks, at first violet within. SPORES elliptical, pale, 

 7-7.5x4-5 micr., slightly rough, pale ochraceous. ODOR and 



TASTE none. 



Gregarious. In low swamps under spruce in moss. North Elba, 

 Adirondack Mountains, New York. Collection Kauffman. Septem- 

 ber. L914. Infrequent. 



This is a pretty plant. When fresh the general effect of the pileus 

 is that of a scaly-capped smoky-gray or drab-gray Inocybe. The 

 universal veil leaves a well-marked annulus. The species seems to 

 be taller and slightly larger in Sweden according to Fries. The 

 pileus is more densely fibrillose than that of C. paleaceus from which 

 ii .lifters also in the dark-colored gills when young. The figure of 

 G. paleaceus in Icones (PL 160, Fig. 4) is an exact reproduction of 

 the size, shape and habit of our form of G. flexipes. 



Section II. Universal veil red, tawny, cinnamon or yellow. 



421. Cortinarius rubripes Kauff. 

 Rep. Mich. Acad, of Sci., 1906. 



Illustrations: Bot. Gaz., Vol. 42, 1906. 

 Jour, of Mycol., Vol. 13, PI. 100, 1907. 



PILEUS 5-12 cm. broad, eonvex-eampanulate then expanded, hy- 

 grophanous, watery-cinnamon when moist, or tinged rufous, obtuse 

 or subumbonate, more or less ferruginous-stained, fading to pinkish- 

 oehraceons, in zones from the umbo outward, at length with innate, 

 silky-shining fibrils, sometimes wavy and irregular, glabrescent, 

 even. FLESH thin except on disk, scissile, with a rufous tinge. 

 GILLS subdistant, distinct, rather rigid, adnate, seceding in age, 

 often with hoary fibrils at point of attachment to stem, pale cin- 

 ereous-purple or rufous-tinged at first, soon reddish-cinnamon, edge 

 entire. STEM 5-7.5 cm. long, with an oval or clavate bulb, 5-15 mm. 

 i hick at apex, bulb deep brick-red to venniUion, paler upwards, 

 clastic, spongy-stuffed within, glabrous, except for the fibrillose re- 

 main* of I lie (bin, evanescent, pale reddish, universal veil. SPORES 

 elliptical, smooth, granular within, 8-9 x 4-5 micr. BASIDIA 

 ::(i::5 x 7 micr.. 4-spored. MYCELIUM brick-red and sometimes 

 forming mycorhiza on roots of forest trees. 



Gregarious or subcaespitose. On the ground in frondose woods. 

 July-September. Ann Arbor. Frequent locally. 



