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AGARICINI. 



503. Cortinarius (BUyxacium) stillatitius. Fr. "Dripping 



Cortinarius." 



Pilens thin, convexo-plane, siibumbonate, eyen; stem hollow, 

 very soft, equally atteriuated, at first covered "with a blue gluten; 

 gills emarginate, somewhat distant, broad, ferruginous, cinna- 

 mon. — Fr. Epicr.p. 211 . Saund. ^ Sm. t. 3. 



In mossy places. 



Stem 2, scarcely 3 in. long, 3-4 lines thick. Pilens sliditly flesliy, scarcely 

 2 in. broad, even, smooth, covered with a blue gluten, afterwards livid brown, 

 and at length greyisb-wbite. Flesb soft, watery, bygrophanous. 



604. Cortinarius (I\/Iyxaciuni) livido-ochraceus. 



"Livid ocbrey Cortinarius." 



B. 



Pileus plane, submembranaceous, viscid, margin not striate; 

 stem attenuated at either end, subsquamose, striate above the fugi- 

 tive veil, stuffed with cottony fibres; gills cinnamon, sub-adnexed, 

 broad in front. — Berk Outl. p. 187. Eng. Fl. Y.p. 89. 



In woods. King's Cliffe. Coed Coch. 



Pileus 1 in. across, quite smooth, shining, covered witb a thick sub-carti- 

 laginous skin, the margin very thin but not striate, plane, livid-ochraceous ; 

 edge with a few indistinct fragments of the veil; gills cinnamon, theextreniie 

 margin pale, moderately distant, broad in front, appearing as if adnexed ; 

 stem 1 in. high, | thick in the middle, where it is swollen, attenuated below, 

 silky, beautiful violet, ochraceous at the base ; snb-scpamose, portion above 

 the obsolete ring striate, stuffed witb cottony fibres. Inodorous.— i)/./. .5. 



Sub- Gen. 3. Inoloma. Fr. Epicr. p. 278. 



Pileus fleshy, subcompact, 

 perfectly dry, with no viscid 

 pellicle, silky with scales, or 

 innate fibres, not bygropha- 

 nous ; stem bulbous. 



The species are handsome 

 and easily distine:nished. 

 (Fig. 43.) 



Fig. 43. 



