CLASSIFICATION OF AGARICS 



color, shining when dry, hardly fading, margin at Aral white-silky. 

 FLESH thin, rigid- tough, concolor to pallid. QILL8 adnexed 

 not broad, ventricose, close, violet at firs/, then rusti cinnamon, 

 <</</< whitish. STEM 2-4 tin. long, not truly Blender, I r, mm. thick, 

 cartilaginous, stuffed then hollow, violaceous or pallid-rufesoent, 

 silky from the white cortina. SPORES elliptical, rough, 7-9i i :. 

 micr. ODOR mid TASTE slight." 



Gregarious. On the ground in < » j m ■ n woods, etc. 



The description is adapted from the works of Pries and his mi 

 published plate al Stockholm. The characteristic features, by which 

 it is separable from ft vmibutus and other related species with riolel 



gills, are the hollow strut and smaller Btature. The figures of Cooke 



agree with those of Pries, except thai they lack the markedly violet 

 stem and jiills. Patouillard's figures (Tab. Ami hi.. No. L28) re- 

 mind one more of ('. badius Pk., and Gillet's figure (Champignons 

 ile Prance, No. 202), has aberrant colors. Peck's specimens have the 

 correct spores. The species has been reported by various authors 



in this country but I have not seen any typical specimens. 

 **Stcm at first irliilr or pallid. 



444. Cortinarius armeniacus Fr. 



Syst Myc, 1821. 



Illustrations: Cooke. [11., PI. 793. 



Ki.keii. Blatterpilze, PI. 51, Pig. 4. 



PILEUS 5 -7 cm. broad, firm, campanulate-subexpanded, broadly 

 umbonate, obtuse, glabrous, even, hygrophanous, sudan-broum when 

 moist (Ridg.), orange-buff on ambo while drying, orange-buff or tan 

 throughout when dry. margin when dry white silk} from the cortina. 

 FLESB ill in on margin, scissile, soon pallid. GILLS adnate, emar- 

 ginate, broad, ventricose, close, thin, at first pallid, then mare-yellow 

 i Ridg. i to cinnamon, edge entire. STEM 5 7 cm. Long, tapering up- 

 ward, 5-8 mm. thick above, twice as thick below, watery pallid when 

 moist, dingy whitish when dry, silky-fibrillose, rind cartilaginous, 

 stuffed, spongy ai base. CORTINA whitish, sparse. BPORE8 

 elliptical, slightly rough, 8-9x5-5.5 micr. ODOR and TASTE mild 

 or slightly of radish. 



Gregarious. Among mosses under spruce and balsam. North 

 Elba, Adirondack Mountains, New York. Collection Kauffman. 

 September, 191 I. 



