CLASSIFICATION OP AGAR] 



equal, subflexuous, fleshy fibrous, Bubeilky, pallid o brott 

 SPORES subellipsoid, 7 LO \ 6.5 micr. 

 "On bare ground in woods, New Xork." 



Section II. Margin a1 firsl Btraighl on the Btem, Qalera-like. 

 Slender-stemmed, with the pileus mostly conicalcampanulate and 



alniosi memhranons. 



*Stem or gills at first violaceous. 



455. Cortinarius fuscoviolaceus Pk. 

 \. V. State Mus. Rep. 27, L875. 



"PILEUS 1-l* cm. broad, convex (?) umbonate, soon expanded 

 and centrally depressed, glabrous, hygrophanous, chestnut brown 

 tinged with violet, the margin whitened by silky fibrils. GILLS 

 rounded behind, at lirsi plane then ventricose, rather distant, dark 

 violaceous at first becoming subcinnamon. STEM 2.5-4 cm. long, 

 slender, flexuous, equal, solid, silky-fibrillose, colored like pileus." 

 SPORES broadly elliptical, minute, smooth, 6-7x3-4 micr. 



"Sphagnous marshes. New York." 



A very similar plant occurs at Ithaca, New York., with spores 

 7-10 x . '5-4 micr. The type-specimens, however, show the spores as 

 i, r i\en above. 



456. Cortinarius erythrinus Fr. 



Epicrisis, 1836-38. 



Illustrations: Cooke. 111.. PI. 708. A. 

 Bicken, Blatterpilze, PI. •">::. Fig. i'. 

 Quelet, Grevillea, PI. L15, Fig. 2. 



PILEUS 1-2 cm. broad, rather firm, conic-campanulate, then Bub 

 expanded and subacutely ambonate, chestnut brown, umbo un 

 or blackish, paler toward margin, hygrophanous, glabrous, even, 

 soon fading. FLESH thin on margin, scissile, watery-brown when 

 moist GILLS rounded behind and adnexed, rather broad, ventri 

 cose, close to subdistant, pallid or pale brownish then cinnam 

 edge entire. STEW slender, l 6 cm. long, 3 I mm. thick, fragile, 

 equal, flexuous, stuffed then hollow, apex violet at "first, pale broi 

 isb elsewhere, sometimes violet-tinged throughout, sparsely 



