Kauffman : The genus Cortinarius 321 



Pileus tawny-orange to cinnamon ; stem pale. 



C\ armeiiiactis (Schaeff.) Fr, 

 Pileus watery -cinnamon; gills very distant. 



C, distans Pk., 



Cortinarius sterilis sp. nov. 



{Myxaciuni) 



Pileus 1.5-4.5 cf^' broad, suborbicular when young, then 

 convex-expanded, margin incurved, drab, drab-gray to olive-buff 

 (Ridg.),"^ even, smooth, viscid, somewhat umbonate at times. 

 Flesh white, soft, thin. Gills relatively broad, 4.6 mm., drab- 

 gray (Ridg.) at first, then light cinnamon, rounded behind, then 

 emarginate, not at all ventricose, rather crowded ; edge scrratulate 



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Cortina white 



or sordid. Stem 4-8 cm. long, 4-6 mm. thick, at base 10 mm., 

 hence clavate or tapering upward, solid, spongy, dingy-white, 

 tinged towards apex with light blue, clothed when fresh with the 

 delicate patches of the viscid, universal veil, which is of the same 

 color as the pileus, within pale bluish at apex, white below. 

 Spores 6-7 // X 5-6.5 /^ subspheroid, rather smooth. Plants slen- 

 der. (Figure i.) _ 



Low places, near sphagnous swamps, near Freeville, N. Y. 

 August 1904, C, H. Kaiiff7)ian, 



Cortinarius cylindripes, sp. nov. 



{Myxaciiiui) 



Pileus 3-7 cm. broad, very glutinous at first and shining, 

 later opaque, at the very first lavender, then yellowish with a 

 violaceous tinge, at length becoming brownish-ochraceous, with 

 the appearance of being stained by these colors at various stages, 

 obtusely orbicular when young, then campanulate and expanded, 

 rather small in comparison with the length of the stem ; margin 

 incurved and pellucid-striate ; surface smooth, at length longitudi- 

 nally wrinkled. Flesh thick on disk, thin elsewhere, violaceous, 

 soon dingy-white. Gills rather broad, at length 5-8 mm., adnata, 

 cmarginate, not attenuate towards margin of pileus, violaceous or 

 letvender when young, becoming pale cinnamon, not crowded, thin, 

 edge serratulate and paler, somewhat wrinkled at the sides but not 

 veined. Stem 8-10 cm. long, 5-9 mm. thick, elastic, remarkably 

 equals covered by a violaceous, glutinous, universal veil which 

 sometimes remains as evanescent patches and at its junction with 

 the partial veil as a slight annulus, smooth or fibrillose-striate at 



Ridgeway, Nomenclature of colors. 



