HEREFORDSHIRE FUNGUSES. 
CORTINARIUS (PHLEGMACIUM) SAGINUS, FR. 
STOUT CORTINARIUS. 
[This representation is reduced in size from the original drawing, by about 
one-sixth, to suit the size“of’the page]. 
Description.—Plant, growing in crowded clusters. Pileus, 4-5 in. broad, very 
fleshy, plano-convex, viscid, smooth, somewhat irregular in shape, and of a buff 
yellow colour. Stem, 3 in. long, and 1 or more thick, fibrillose, subbulbous, 
solid, of a light yellowish colour, the upper part smooth and naked. Veil, 
fugacious. Gills, broad, often decurrent, with a notched worn edge, and of a 
pale, dirty, cinnamon colour. Flesh, white and soft.—Fries’ Epicrisis, p. 340. 
Hymen: Suecie II., 12. Cooke's Grevillea, V., pl. 92. 
Fries says this fine cortinarius grows usually in mountainous pine woods, 
often in large crowded groups. It was found by Dr. Bull in 1874, growing ina 
wide crowded ring beneath a birch tree in Haywood Forest, near Hereford, close 
by the high road. It has appeared every year since to 1878, but has not as yet 
been found in any other British locality. 
