AGARICINI. 



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Sub-Gen. 2. Myxacium, Fr. Epicr. p. 273. 



Pileus glutinous ; veil (and 

 consequently the stem) yiscid, 

 polished when dry. 



{Fig. 42, reduced.) 



Fig. 42. 



501. Coxtinarius (Myxacium) collinitus. Fr. " Smeared 



Cortinarius." 



Pileus fleshy, convex, then expanded, obtuse, even, glutinous, 

 shining ; stem firm, cylindrical, transversely squamose from the 

 breaking up of the glutinous floccose veil ; gills adnate, clay- 

 coloured, or grey, then cinnamon. — Fr. Epicr. p. 214:. Sow. t. 9. 

 Bull. t. 549, 596. Buxb. iv. t. 9. Batsch.f. 197, C. var. Eng. Fl. 

 v.j:>. 93. Fe?!^. «. 32,/.4-6. 



In woods. Common. [S. Carolina.] 



Gills and stem sometimes purplish, sometimes wifhout any purple tint, 

 except when very young. Pileus 3 in. broad, expanded, very slimy, shining 

 when dry, tawny-ochraceous, margin thin ; gills broad, ventricose, rounded 

 behind and adnate with a tooth, connected by veins, distant; stem 4 in. 

 high, I in. thick, solid, white within, except at the base, which is rhubarb- 

 coloured without, covered below with a white silky, slimy coat, broken trans- 

 versely into scales, beneath which it is rhubarb-coloured ; fibrillose above the 

 obsolete ring.— J/. /. ^. Spores '00038 X '00022 in. (Fig. '^, reduced.) 



502. Cortinarius (lyiyxacium) elatior. Fr. " Tall Cortinarius." 



Pileus cylindrical, then expanded, viscid, disc rather fleshy, 

 even, otherwise membranaceous, and plicato-rugose ; stem elon- 

 gated, soft, stout, attenuated at either end, squamose from the 

 torn veil; gills adnate, broad, connected by veins, and rugose, 

 brownish-ferruginous. — Fr. Epicr. p. 21 4,. Berh. Outl. p. 186. 



In woods. Common. 



Stem solid, soft, 5-7 in. long, I in. and more thick, commonly attenuated, 

 longitudinally fibrous ; pileus about 3-4 in. broad, when moist livid yellow, 

 when dry dingy ochre, but variable in colour, whitish, tan colour, bright 

 brown, violet-brown, &c. j gills sub-distant, at first 3 lines broad, after- 

 wards broader. 



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