CLASSIFICATION OF AGARICS 117 



427. Cortinarius castaneoides l'k. 



N. v. State Cab. Rep. 23, 1872. 

 Illustration : [bid, PI. t. Pig. LO L5. 



PILEUS 1-2 cm. broad, campanulate-convex, then expanded, 

 chestnut brown to dark watery-cinnamon, brownish-ochraceous w hen 

 dry, subumbonate and usually darker <>n center, hygrophanous, 

 scarcely silky with a few superficial fibrils, even, margin sometimes 

 whitish From t h <* veil. FLESH thin, watery-brownish then pallid. 

 GILLS adnate then emarginate, rather broad, subdistant, yellowish 

 hi first, t lien yellowish-cinnamon to dark cinnamon, edge almost 

 entire. STEM 2-5 cm. Long, L.5-3 nun. thick, equal, slender, Btuffed 

 then hollow, subflexuons, pallid, annulate from ilu cortina and the 

 fugacious universal veil which remains as subannular, delicate 

 shreds on the stem below. SPORES elliptical, smooth, 6-7.5 \ 3.5 L5 

 micr. ODOR and TASTE none. 



Gregarions or snbcaespitose. On the ground in low frondose or 

 conifer woods or in mossy places. Ann Arbor, New Richmond, 

 Marquette, etc. August-October. infrequent. 



This has the stature and spores of C. 8ubflexipes l'k.. hut the 

 pileus is more convex, and the gills and stem not at first with any 

 violet tint. C. badvus l'k. is also of abont the same size, hnt its 

 spores are almost twice as large as those of C. castaneoides. These 

 three approach the slender species of the subgenus llydrocyhe. and 

 cannot always he distinguished easily from that group, especially 

 where the annnlns or other evidence of the universal veil have dis- 

 appeared, c decipiens Ft. differs in its conic pilens, different 

 spore-size and the tint of rufous present on the stem. 



428. Cortinarius badius Pk. 

 N. V. State .Mas. Rep. LI, L888. 



illustration: Plate LXXXVI1 of this Report. 



"PILEUS 1 2.5 cm. broad, varying conical to campanulate-convex, 

 umbonate, hygrophanous, blackish-chestnut-color when moist, bay- 

 red <>r chestnut when dry. sometimes tinged gray, the umbo darker, 

 usually whitish-silky on the margin when young. FLESH concolor 

 when moist, thin, <;ild.s broad, subdistant, ventricose, adnea 

 at fust yellowish or cream color, then subochraceous. STEM 2 i cm. 



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