106 T}WENTY-THIRD REPORT ON THE STATE CABINET. 
the edge, whitish, then cinnamon ; stipe equal, solid or stuffed, 
firm, fibrillose, whitish, bulbous. ; 
Height 4'- 6’, breadth of pileus 34’, stipe 4’—6” thick. 
q Mossy ground under fir trees. Catskill Mountains. Octo- 
er 
The lamelle appear as iffinely and obscurely striated trans- 
versely. The color of the pileus is a rich, reddish-yellow, 
almost orange. 
2. CORTINARIUS LUTEO-FUSCUS 2. Sp. 
Pileus fleshy, broadly convex, even,smooth, brown; lamelle 
rather close, yellow, then cinnamon, deeply emarginate ; stipe 
equal, nearly straight, solid, silky, striate, whitish, bulbous. 
Height about 4’, breadth of pileus 2’, stipe 3’—4” thick. 
Woods. NorthElba. August. The fuscous pileus, yellow 
lamelle, and white stem give the plant a tricolored appear- 
ance. 
3. CORTINARIUS COMMUNIS 2. Sp. 
Pileus fleshy, broadly convex or expanded, whitish or gray, 
tinged with red, the disk deeper colored; lamelle rather 
broad, not crowded, emarginate and spuriously decurrent- 
toothed, whitish, then ochraceous-cinnamon ; stipe equal, solid 
or stuffed, not bulbous, white-mealy at the top, fibrillose 
below, dingy white. “2/2. Sw. 
Height 2’—4’, breadth of pileus 2’-3’, stipe 3’—5” thick. 
Woods and open places. Common. Center, Catskill Moun- 
tains, etc. September and October. 
4. CORTINARIUS CAPERATUS /7. 
Pileus fleshy, not thick except on the disk, at first ovate, 
then subcampanulate or expanded, obtuse or broadly sub- 
umbonate, often irregular and rugose-wrinkled, bright egg- 
yellow ; lamellee rather broad, slightly emarginate and decur- 
rent-toothed, whitish, then pale cinnamon ; stipe stout, nearly 
equal, not bulbous, solid, annulate, white, mealy-squamulose 
above the ring. 
Height 4’-8’, breadth of pileus 3’—5’, stipe 6”—10” thick. 
Woods. Catskill and Adirondack Mountains. August- 
October. 
A large and showy species, not agreeing well with the 
characters of the subgenus. The pileus is said to be slightly 
viscid and incrusted with superficial white flocci, which at 
length disappear. In our specimens, even when young, no 
incrustation was perceptible, neither was the pileus clearly 
