96 A CATALOGUE OF ESCULENT BRITISH FUNGI. 



beneath ; stout, fibrillose above obsolete ring. Veil slimy, arach- 

 noid, fugacious. 



Section. Flesh white, thick at centre. Stem solid, white above, 

 red-brown below. Gills ochry-grey, then tawny, broad, distant, 

 venate, ventricose, rounded behind, denticulato-adnate. Odour 

 feeble. Taste not pronounced. Spores rusty-brown. 



Ohs. It is eaten on the Contment, but I cannot commend it. — W. D. H. 



Genus CORTINARIUS. Sub-gcnus TELAMONIA. 



(90.) CORTINARIUS ARMILLATUS ; Telamonia armillata ; 

 The Bracelet-stem. 



Habitat. In woods, especially of oak. Solitary. 



Season. July to October. Not common. 



Pileus. Three to five inches across, tawny or brick-red, dry, 

 smooth, innato-fibrillose or squamulose ; campanulate, then convex, 

 plane, expanded. Cuticle separable. Margin thin. 



Stem. Three to six inches high, tint of pileus, middle marked 

 with a blood-red zone, half-inch thick, silky, fibrillose, swollen at 

 base. Veil reddish-white, arachnoid. 



Section. Flesh thickish, discoloured. Stem solid. Gills pallid, 

 soon rusty, unequal, broad, distant, fixed, rounded behind, adnate. 

 Faint smell of radishes. Taste sharp. Spores rusty-brown. 



Obs. A very commendable esculent, sometimes plentiful, and readily recog- 

 nised by its bracelet. — W. D. H. 



Genus GOMPHIDIVS. 



(91.) GOMPHIDIUS GLUTINOSUS; The Peg-top. (PL III. 

 fig. 5.) 



Habitat. In ])ine woods. Solitary. 



Season. August to October. Not rare. 



Pileus. Two to five inches across, purplish- brown, glutinous ; 

 obtuse, flattened, continuous, top or peg-shaped. Margin thin, 

 even. 



Stevi. Two to four inches high, yellowish below, continuous, 

 tapered downward. Base enlarged, perhaps scaly. Veil glutinous. 

 Ring fragmentary. 



Section. Flesh thick, tough, stained. Stem solid. Gills pallid, 

 then dusky lilac, furcate, soft, glutinous, narrow, decurrent. 



