ll6 THE AGARICACEAE OF MICHIGAN 



solid, peronate and sub-annulate by the fibrillose yellow universal 

 veil. SPORES 7.5-9 x 5 micr. 

 "Mossy ground in swamps, New York. August." 



Section III. Universal veil white or whitish. 



*Gills at first yellowish or palUd-ochraceous. 



426. Cortinarius hinnuleus Fr. 



Epicrisis, 1836. 



Illustrations: Cooke, 111., PI. 805. 



Gillet, Champignons de France, No. 227. 

 Patouillard, Tab. Analyt., No. 648. 

 Ricken, Die Bliitterpilze, PI. 48, Fig. 3. 



PILEUS 3-6 cm. broad, campanulate at first, then expanded and 

 recurved, subumbonate, rusty-ochraceous or yellowish tawny, varie- 

 gated with rusty stains in age, very hygrophanous, paler when dry, 

 glabrous. FLESH thin, watery-soft, fragile when fresh. GILLS 

 adnate-emarginate, broad, subdistant, pale yellowish-fulvous at first, 

 stained rusty in age, edge minutely lacerate. STEM 5-7 cm. long, 

 4-7 mm. thick, rather slender, unequal, soft and fragile, easily split 

 longitudinally, stuffed, curved, yellowish-pallid becoming dingy, gla- 

 brescent, cingulate when fresh by a white zone about the middle. 

 SPORES broadly elliptical, scarcely rough, 7-9.5 x 5-6 micr. BASI- 

 DIA 30 x 7 micr., 4-spored. ODOR none. 



On the ground among decayed debris, in beech and pine woods. 

 New Richmond. September. Infrequent. 



Tli is plant seems to be very close to the European one, but differs 

 in some minor particulars. It is more yellowish on the pileus, quite 

 fragile and the gills are less broad and distant. It is placed here 

 provisionally. At maturity the watery-rusty stains on the cap 

 give it a spotted appearance; its flesh is thin and at length splits 

 radially. The stem is variously thickened or almost equal, soft 

 and usually curved. The white band-like zone on the stem at length 

 disappears. 



