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Excrement of deer in woods. Adirondack mountains. July. 
About the size of and growing with Coprinus radiatus from which 
it is clearly distinct by its entire pileus and persistent adnate lamell. 
Cortinarius balteatus /’r. 
Grassy ground in pastures. Catskill mountains. September. 
Our specimens belong to a form which may be called variety bulbosus. 
Stem strongly bulbous, at first almost wanting, the pileus appearing 
to rest on the bulb which is abruptly pointed beneath. 
The typical form occurs in Europe and is said to grow especially 
under pine trees. 
Cortinarius pluvius, /’r. 
Woods. Catskill mountains. September. 
Cortinarius muscigenus, n. sp. 
Pileus at first ovate, then convex or concave from the recurving of 
the margin, subumbonate, glabrous, viscose with a separable pellicle, 
tawny-orange and widely striate on the margin when moist, tawny 
and shining when dry, flesh dingy white, tinged with vellow ; lamelle 
broad, ventricose, adnate, with a broad shallow emargination, some- 
what rugose on the sides, yellowish, becoming cinnamon; stem long, 
subequal, viscid, even, silky, solid, white or whitish ; spores .0005 to 
.0006 in. long, .0003 to .00086 broad. 
Pileus 1.5 to 2.5 in. broad ; stem 3 to 4 in. long, 3 to 4 lines thick. 
Mossy ground under balsam trees. Wittenberg mountain. September. 
Closely related to (. collinitus from which it is separated by its more 
highly colored pileus, striate margin and even, not diffracted-squamose, 
stem. 
Cortinarius brevipes, ». sp. 
Pileus convex, silky-fibrillose, sordid white, flesh yellowish-white ; 
lamelleze close, adnexed, pale violaceous becoming cinnamon ; stem 
short, silky-fibrillose, bulbous, whitish, pale violaceous within ; spores 
subelliptical, .0004 in. long, .00024 broad. | 
Pileus 1 to 2 in. broad; stem about 1 in. long, 4 to 6 lines thick. 
Woods. Catskill mountains. September. 
The species belongs to the tribe Inoloma and is related to C. albo- 
violaceus, from which it is separated by its smaller size, short stem and 
yellowish-white flesh. 
Cortinarius brevissimus, 2. sp. 
Pileus convex, often irregular, at first minutely silky, then glabrous, 
dingy white or argillaceous, flesh whitish; lamelle close, adnexed, at 
first pale violaceous, then whitish, finally cinnamon; stem equal, very 
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