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505. Cortinarius (Inoloma) violaceus. Fr. "Violet Corti- 



narius." 



Dark violet ; pileus fleshy, obtuse, villoso-squamose ; stem bul- 

 bous, spongy, villous, internally cinereous violet; gills fixed, broad, 

 thick, distant, darker. — Fr. Epicr.p. 279. Eng. Fl. v. p. 85. Huss. 

 i. 1. 12. Sv. Bot. t. 288. Hediv. obs. t. 4. Bull t. 250. Smith, E.M. 

 /. 12. Hogg ^' Johnst. t. 6. Vent. t. 38,/. 1-3. 



In woods. Esculent. [United States.] 



_ Pileug 4 in. or more across, obtuse, expanded, gills when young deep 

 violet, almost black, stem 4 in. high, when young subtomentose.— i^/-ie5. 



506. Coxtinaxius (Inoloma) camphoxatus. Fr. "Strong- 



scented Cortinarius.'' 



Pileus fleshy, obtuse, lilac, silky, then smooth and discoloured ; 

 stem bulbous, dry ; base white within, becoming bluish as well as 

 the veil ; gills thin, crowded, bright coerulean, then purplish. — 

 Fr.Ep. p. 280. B.4'Br. Ann. N. H. (IS66), no. 1128. 



On the ground in woods. KSept. Fineshade. 



Stem solid, soft, bulbous or obclavate, 3-5inche=! long, ^-1 in. thick, woolly 

 when young, violet, white within at the bise. Pileus 2-3 in. broad, at first 

 eilky, lilac, then smooth and discoloured (whiti?!h, yellowish, &;c.), nothygro- 

 phanous j flesh blue, gills decurrent or emarginate. Odour strong and foetid. 



507. Coxtinaxius (Inoloma) callisteus. Fr. " Stout Corti- 



narius." 



Yellowish tawny ; pileus fleshy, convex, then plane, rather 

 smooth, even, and innato-squamulose ; margin rather silky ; flesh 

 yellowish-white; stem elongated, bulbous, tawny fibiillose ; gills 

 adnate, floccose, connected behind. — Fr. Epicr.p. 281. A. validus 

 B. Eng.Fl.Y.p.8^. Saund. 4' Sm.t.3. 



In woods. Rare. 



Pilr'us4 in. broad, fleshy, martrin thin, deep tawny inclining to ferruginous, 

 atfirst convex, flatly hemispherical, orsub-canipanulate, very obtuse, at length 

 expanded, planp-convex, clothed with very minute reflexed scales; flesh 

 whitish, partaking very slightly of the colour of the pileus ; margin at first 

 eubinvolute. Gills |th in. broad, brittle, undulate, nearly horizontal, adnate, 

 Boon starting from the stem, and connected with it by a few fibres, very mi- 

 nutely emarginate, pale tawny, clouded with the spores. Stem 4 in. high, 

 nearly 1 in. thick in the centre, I3 at the base, bulbou?, fibrillose from the 

 remains of the fugacious veil, which forms in tlie very young plant a slight 

 extremely evanescent ring, which is coloured by the spores, solid, tawny like 

 the pileus. At the base are a few strong roots There is not the slightest 

 tino-e of purple or violet in any stage of growth. — M.J.B. Spores '0003 X 

 •00022 in. (Fig. 43, rediu:ed.) 



