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GUIDE TO THE MODELS OF FUNGI. 



77. Cortinarius violaceus Fr. — Pileus dark purple, fleshy, con- 

 vex, villous-scaly, margin at first involute ; flesh soft, purple ; gills 

 distant, adnate, broad, intense violet-purple, then cinnamon ; stalk 

 bulbous, thick, spongy-solid, stout, tomentose, then fibrillose, dark 

 purple ; cortina woolly, azure-blue, stained with the ferruginous 

 spores. 



A handsome species, common in woods and open ground. 

 Inodorous, but with a mushroom taste. Esculent. Care must be 

 taken not to confuse this with other purplish species, several ot 

 which are either suspected or known to be poisonous ; attention 

 must be paid to the dry, downy pileus, the bright-purple flesh 

 as seen when cut or broken, and especially the cinnamon-colour 

 of the spores. C. violaceus is frequently confounded with Agaricus 

 nudus Bull., a purple species with white spores. 



78. Cortinarius sublanatus Fr. — Pileus fawn-coloured, at length 

 ferruginous, slightly fleshy, unibonate, clothed with innate, floccose, 

 fuscous squamules ; flesh whitish ; gills adnate, olivaceous-yellowish, 

 then cinnamon ; stalk solid, conico-elongated, clothed to the middle 

 with fuscous down, which is continued into a fibrillose cortina, apex 

 slightly violaceous, naked. 



A rare inhabitant of woods. 



Sub-genus 4. Dcrmocybe. — In Dermocybe the pileus is at 

 first silky, then smooth, somewhat thin, not hygrophanous ; stalk 



equal or attenuated downwards ; veil single, 

 fibrillose; flesh white or coloured. There 

 are twenty-six British species of Dcrmocybe^ 

 two of which are represented by models. 



79. Cortinarius spilomeus Fr. — Pileus 

 reddish-brown or clay-coloured, smooth ; 

 gills adnate or sinuate, crowded, bluish- 

 grey or violaceous, then cinnamon ; stalk 

 hollow, equal, white-lilac, variegated with 

 rufous or tawny scales, furnished with a 

 white cortina. 



A pretty but uncommon inhabitant of 

 Fig. 35— Type form of Dermo- woods ; it Sometimes grows in clusters. 



cybe. Cortinarius cinnamo- 

 meusFr. (One-third natural 



s'^*^) 80. Cortinarius cinnamomeus Fr. — 



Pileus thin, umbonate, silky or downy-fibrillose, then smooth, 

 cinnamon ; flesh yellowish ; gills adnate, crowded, shining, light- 

 er golden-yellow, safl'ron-tawny, red-cinnamon or blood-red ; stalk 

 stufi'ed, then hollow, thin, equal, yellowish and fibrillose, with the 

 yellowish cortina. 



C cinnamomeus, a most variable species as regards the colour 

 of the gills, is common in mixed woods. 



