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Well marked by the tinge of brick-red which pervades the whole 

 plant on drying and Bhades into a deep red towards the base of the 

 stem. The hygrophanous character is unmistakable. The universal 

 veil is not always manifest This species approaches the European 

 C. bulliardi Fr. and C. colus Fr. Prom the former it is to be 

 separated by the hygrophanous pilens and the spores. It is, how- 

 ever, uncertain whal the spore-size of the Priesian planl really is. 

 Ricken refers a planl t<» C. bulliardi whose spores measure 6-7x3 I 

 niicr., "spin die- almond-shaped." others give larger spores, and 

 apparently deal with a different species. Boudier (Icones), gives 

 a figure of C. bulliardi which resembles our plant! closely. C. coins 

 Pr. appears to differ in the absence of the universal veil and, accord- 

 ing to Ricken, in the slightly larger spores, and its gills are without 

 any purplish tint. It is similar in its "fiery-red" mycelium, and 

 general aspect i see PL 50, Fig. 6, Die Blatterpilze). To add to the 

 confusion. Peck described a species sent to him under the name C. 

 rubripes Pk. iN. V. State Mus. Bull. 105, 1906), which he says is 

 related to C. cinnabarinus. It has violaceous gills when young, a 

 grayish-ferruginous to pale alutaceous pilens, and bright red stem. 

 The spores measure 7.5-10 x 5 micr. It is a smaller plant than any 

 of the others mentioned. For the present our plant must be con- 

 sidered a distinct species. 



422. Cortinarius armillatus Fr. (Edible) 



Syst. Myc L821. 



Illustrations: Fries. Icones. PI. 158. 

 Cooke, 111., PI. SOL'. 



(Jillet, Champignons de France, No. l'.i". 

 Ricken, Die Blatterpilze, PL 48, Fig. 5. 

 Michael, Fiihrer f. Pilzfreunde, II. No. 71. 

 Marshall, Mushroom Book, PL ::•_'. p. 86, 1905. 

 Hard, Mushrooms, Fig. 243, p. 301, L908. 

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PILEUS 5-12 cm. broad, campanulate with decurved margin, then 

 expanded, not truly hugrophanous, tawny rufescent to red-brick 

 color, moist when fresh, innately ftbrillose or minutely scaly, with 

 shreds of the universal veil often clinging to the margin, sometimes 

 glahrescent. FLESH rather spongy, not very thick considering 



its size, dingy pallid. <iILLS adnate, sometimes sinuate and mi- 



