Reporr or THE BorANIst. 105 
attached toa collar formed of the dilated apex of the stipe, 
grayish, then black ; stipe slender, hollow, smooth, white. 
Height 1’—2’, breadth of pileus 6’—-9”. 
Rich ground. Albany. June. 
6. COPRINUS EPHEMERUS /7. 
Pileus very thin and delicate, ovate-campanulate, at length 
expanded with the margin recurved and split, distantly sul- 
cate-striate, cinereous, the disk smooth, elevated, reddish ; 
lamellee distant, very narrow, attached, grayish, then black, 
stipe very slender, fragile, white, hollow; plant sometimes 
ceespitose. 
Height 1’-1.5’, breadth of pileus 4’-6”. 
Dung heaps. Albany and Sandlake. June and July. 
Genus—CORTINARIUS A7. 
Gills membranaceous, persistent; trama floccose. Veil con- 
sisting of arachnoid threads. Spores rusty-ochre. — Berk, 
Outl. 
A large and difficult genus, containing many closely related 
species, varying in color and differing in size, according to 
conditions of weather and locality. The color of the spores 
is reddish-ochre, sometimes ochraceous, and the veil is composed 
of fine filaments, which may generally be seen in the young 
expanding plant, stretching from the stipe to the margin of the 
pileus. The prevailing color of these plants is some shade of 
yellow or ochre, and the emarginate lamelle at length become 
cinnamon-color. Most of the species grow in woods and shaded 
places. 
~ Subgenus — Phlegmacium. 
Pellicle of pileus viscid when moist. Veil, and consequently 
the stem from which it springs, dry. — Berk. Outd. 
The viscid pileus and dry stem are the marks of this subgenus, 
but it should be borne in mind that a viscid pileus when old or 
dry ceases to be viscid, 
SYNOPSIS OF THE SPECIES. 
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1. CORTINARIUS COLORATUS 2. Sp. 
Pileus fleshy, broadly convex or expanded, smooth, bright 
reddish-yellow ; lamelle thin, deeply emarginate, eroded on 
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