322 Kauffman : The genus Cortinarius 



apex, violaceous to dingy-white within, solid or stuffed ; entire 

 stem usually a beautiful pale azure-blue. Spores 1 2-1 5 /^ X 6.5-8 /^, 

 slightly tuberculate; basidia about \o p. long. (Figure 2.) 



Gregarious, rarely cespitose. Entire plant is soft and quickly 

 decays. Under hemlock trees, Enfield Gorge, Coy's Glen and Fall 



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H. Kauff) 



Related to C, elatior^ from which it differs in its equal stem, 

 which is never scaly and is always violaceous to blue ; the gills are 

 lavender when young and the w^hole plant is very viscous. 



Cortinarius olivaceo-stramineus sp. nov. 



( Phlegmaciu ni^ 



Pileus 4-7 cm. broad, viscid from a gelatinous cuticle, broadly 

 convex, slightly depressed in the center when expanded, margin 

 incurved for some time, pale straw-yellozv zvith an olivaceous tinge, 

 slightly rufous-tinged when old, smooth or silky-fibrillose, disk 

 sometimes covered with minute squamules, shreds of the partial 

 veil attached to the margin when expanded. Flesh very thick^ 

 becoming abruptly thin towards margin, white, dingy-yellowish 

 in age, soon soft and spongy. Gills rather narrow, 7 mm, broad, 

 sinuate-adnexed, whitish at first, then pale cinnamon, crowded, 

 edge serratulate and paler. Stem 6-8 cm. long, 5-12 mm. thick, 

 with a slight bulb when young, from whose margin arises the 

 dense partial veil ; white and very pruinate above the veil, which 

 remains as dingy fibrils stained by the spores, spongy and soft 

 within, becoming somewhat hollow. Veil white with an olive 

 tinge. Spores 10- 1 2 /i x 5-5-^.5 /^, granular within, almost smooth. 

 Odor agreeable. (Figure 3.) 



To be placed under the division '' scaurus^' where it comes 

 near C. herpeticus Fr., but the gills when young are never violet- 



tinged. 



H. 



H. WhetzeUndJ. M. Van Hook 



Cortinarius umidicola sp. nov. 



( Telamonici) 



Pileus as much as 16 cm. broad (generally 6-7 cm. when 

 expanded) hemispherical, then convex and expanded, with the 



purplish 



ip heliotrope- 



pinkish-buff^ 



