CLASSIFICATION OF AGARII 



orange or reddish-orange by deposil of the Bpores. SPORES i 

 5-5.5 micr. Under conifers, New i'ork. 



Both forms arc known by the .uilK bee ing mars-orange at ma- 

 turity. Sometimes the silkj fibrils on the margin of the cap 

 slightly rufous. No universal veil is present The cortina 

 whitish. 



458. Cortinarius leucopus Fr. (var.) 



Syst. Myc, 1821. 



Illustration: Cooke. 111.. PL 843. 



PILETJS L-3 cm. broad, conico-campanulate, al Length expanded 

 ami umbonate, even, glabrous, roods-brown (Ridg.) when moist, 

 cinnamon-buff (Ridg.) when dry, hygrophanons. GILLS adnate 

 sinuate, rentricose, not broad, suhdistant, pallid </t first, then ochra 



ceous-taumy | Ridg.), edge entire. STEM 3-4 cm. Long, :' I mm. thick, 

 rather slender, equal, 8ilky-fibrillo8e or sometimes subcingulati 

 from the white cortina, stuffed to hollow, white or pallid. SPORES 

 narrow, elliptic-oblong, scarcely rough, 7-8x3.5-4.5 micr. (rarelj 

 ".) nncr.). ODOK none. 



Gregarious or subcaespitose. On tin- ground or moss in pine 

 ami spruce woods. North Elba, New York, and New Richmond, 

 Michigan. September-October, [nfrequent. 



This approaches G. juberinus Fr., bu1 pileus is re acute, spoi 



of a differenl shape and stem scarcely brownish. The spo 

 with those given by Ricken and Britzelmayr, hut the colors, babit 

 and the occasionally cingulate Stem are shown in Fries' unpublish- 

 ed plate. Xo form has been seen with a pure white stem as de- 

 scribed by Pries. Cooke's figures show the faded condition. The 

 moist young pileus is margined by the white silky remains of the 

 cortina. 



459. Cortinarius scandens Fr. 



Epicrisis, L836-38. 



Illustrations: Cooke, 111.. I'l. 830 ,,h\ condition). 

 Cooke, III.. PI. sir. (as G. obtusus). 

 Gillet, Champignons de Prance, No. 236 '-i- ' 

 Fries, [cones, I'l. L63, Fig. 3 (as G. obtusus). 



PILEUS I ■"• cm. broad, rigid, eonico-campanulati ^-d 



