CLASSIFICATION OP AGARIi 



452. Cortinarius uraceus I ■ 

 Epicrisis, 1826-38. 

 Illustration: Fries, [cones, PL L62, Pig. 3. 



PILEUS 2-5 cm. broad, firm, at firsl ovat ■ campanulate 'i • 



convex-snbexpanded, often with a mammillate umbo, hygrophano 

 smoky chestnut brown (Bidg.) when moist, even, fading to i 

 aamon-brown or isabelline, with blackish streaks, often bl< 

 umbo, margin persistently decnrved. FLESH thin except dii 

 sile, watery chestnut (moist), fragile when dry. QILL8 broadly 

 adnate, broad, close to subdistant, dark watery brown at first, then 

 auhurn to dark rusty-brown (Ridg.), edge at Length blach - i:m 

 i ■'■• cm. long, 1 10 nun. thick, eqnal or tapering slightly apward, be 

 coming flexuous, firm, stuffed then hollow, pallid when fresh, Boon 

 brownish-streaked, fuscescent, in age blackish, rarely with aarrow 

 while evanescent annulns. CORTINA whitish, forming a silky 

 /.one on the yonng margin of pileus, fnscescent SPORES broadly 

 elliptical, 7-8x5-6 micr., rough. ODOR of radish when plants 

 crashed. TASTE mild. 



Gregarious-snbcaespitose. Among moss under balsam, Bprrn 

 etc. North Elba. Adirondack Mountains, v-u fork. Collection 

 Kaufl'inan. September, r.iu. Freqnenl after heavy rail 



The species is interpreted here in the sense of the [cones of I 

 It is well marked by its spores, dark colors and broad gills. In dry 

 weather it is scarcely recognizable; it La then often pale tan and 

 streaked with blackish stains, quite fragile and Bplit on the d 

 of the cap. There is no universal veil in the young stage, the I 

 which separates i1 from C. glandicolor which is Dearest to it u 

 and habit. As characterized bv lyrics, an olivaceous coloi roe 



times present. This form appears to be thai of Ricken with %• 

 large spores. In the Monograph ia. Pries himself raises th( 

 whether it is not a composite species. Cooke (111., PI. 796) figure* 

 slender plant and it is possible that this is also 

 I collected such a plant in Sweden with Bpores N 1" I 5-6 D 





