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and is sometimes curved upward and conspicuously fibrillose. 

 This difference between the margin and the rest of the pileus ia 

 not clearly shown in the dried specimens. The species belongs 

 in the section Myxacium. 



Cortinaxius obliquus n. sp. 



PLATE L, PIG. 1-5 



Pileus rather thin, broadly convex or nearly plane, dry, silky 

 fibrillose, white or grayish, generally with a slight violaceous 

 tint, flesh whitish; lamellae thin, close, adnate or slightly 

 rounded behind, minutely crenulate on the edge and obscurely 

 transversely striate on the sides, deep violet becoming cinna- 

 mon brown with age; stem equal, solid, shining, silky fibrillose, 

 whitish tinged with violet, violet within, with an abrupt flat- 

 tened oblique bulb at the base; spores elliptic, uninucleate, 

 .0003 of an inch long, .0002 broad. 



Pileus 2-3 inches broad; stem 2-3 Inches long, 3-5 lines thick. 

 Among fallen leaves in woods. Bolton. August, 



This species is well marked by the white or grayish white 

 pileus, the deep violet or almost amethystine color of the young 

 lamellae and the oblique flattened bulb of the stem. It belongs 

 to the section Inoloma. C. a 1 b i d u s Pk. has an oblique bulb 

 at the base of the stem and a white pileus but it belongs to the 

 section Phlegmacium as its pileus is viscid. Its young lamellae 

 are also white. 



Cortinarius violaceo-cinereus (Pers.) Fr. 



Pine woods. Hague, Warren co. June. Mrs E. Watrous. 

 A large cespitose form. A scattered or gregarious form occurs 

 in woods near Bolton. September. In Systenia mycologioum and 

 in Epicrisis, Fries gives C. violaceo-cinereus as the 

 name of the species, but in E'l^menomycetes Europaei he changed 

 the form of the name to C. cinereo-violaceus without 

 giving any reason for the change. This name has been adopted 

 in Sylloge, but we have retained the older form. 



