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is tall, white-stemmed, with broad tau-colored, somewhat viscid cap ; 

 emarginate gills, clay color at first, at last cinnamon color ; stem solid, 

 stout, fibrillose, and equal. 



Cortinarius coUinitus, Smeared Cortinarius, and Cortinarius cinjiamo- 

 meus, with its variety semi-sanguinea, have also been tested, and found 

 edible. The first of these is somewhat common. The plants when fresh 

 are covered with a glutinous substance, and this should be removed before 

 cooking. Cap smooth under the glutinous coat, light bi'own or tawny 

 yellow in color, flesh white ; gills whitish or light gray when young, cin 

 namon-hued in the matured plant. Stem solid, nearly equal, cylindrical, 

 yellowish, and somewhat scaly. C. cinnamomeus belongs to the division 

 Dermocybe. The cap is thin at first, silky with innate fibrids, becoming 

 smooth, and varies from light brown to a dark cinnamon color. The gills 

 are yellowish, then cinnamon ; stem downy or silky, yellow. The variety 

 semi'San guinea has the lamellae red, almost as in the preceding species. 



C. (Phlegmacium) varius, "Variable Cortinarius," edible, has a compact 

 fleshy viscid, even cap, brownish in color, gills at first violet, changing to 

 cinnamon, stout solid stem, white or whitish, adorned with adpressed 

 flocci, flesh white. 



Cortinarius (Telamonia) armillatus Fries is given in M. C. Cooke's list 

 of edible Cortinarii. Cap fleshy but not thick, fibrillose and slightly 

 scaly, bright bay color, thin uneven margin ; stem solid, dingy, rufescent, 

 showing irregular red zones or bands elongated and slightly bulbous at 

 the base ; gills distant, broad, pallid in color at first, changing to dark 

 cinnamon. C. (Telamonia) AcemaiocAe^/s Bull, (edible), somewhat resem- 

 bles the former in color and size, though not so bright a brown. Cap 

 thin, silky-fibrillose ; gills adnate, narrow and crowded, light cinnamon ; 

 stem long, solid, dingy, with a reddish zone. 



C. (Hydrocybe) castajieus Bull., Chestnut Cortinarius (edible), is found 

 in woods and gardens. The plants of this species are usually small. 

 Cap at first campanulate, expanding, sometimes slightly umbonate in the 

 centre, chestnut color; gills ventricose, crowded, purplish, changing to 

 rust color ; stem short, hollow or stuffed, cartilaginous, equal, pallid, red- 

 dish brown, or tinged with violet ; veil white. 



Subgenus CoUybia Fries. Cap at first convex, then expanded, not de- 

 pressed, with an involute margin ; gills reaching the stem, but not decur- 

 rent, sometimes emarginate ; stem hollow, with cartilaginous bark of a 

 different substance from the hymenophore, but confluent with it ; often 

 swollen and splitting in the middle ; spores white. The plants are usually 

 found growing upon dead tree stumps ; some grow upon the ground : a 

 few are parasitic on other fungi or springing from sclerotia, small im- 

 pacted masses of mycelium. The species are generally small and firm 

 and of slow growth. A few are edible, some few have an unpleasant 

 odor. On account of the cartilaginous stem and the dryness of their 

 substance, some of the smaller species are apt to be taken for Marasmii. 

 Note : Saccardo in his Sj'lloge gives Collybia generic rank. 



