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above the annulus, white, veil white; spores elliptical, .0003 in. long, 

 .0002 broad. 



Pileus 1 to 3 in. brctid ; stem 1 to 2 in. long, 3 to 5 lines thick. 



Groves of spruce. North Elba. Sept. 



The pale pileus becoming virgate and more highly colored with age 

 and the loose, woolly covering of the stem are the distinguishing 

 features of this species. The bulb is distinct, but scarcely marginate. 



Cortinarius (Inoloma) canescens, n. sp. 



Pileus fleshy, subcampanulate or convex, obtuse or somewhat 

 umbonate, silky or squamulose with innate grayish fibrils, whitish- 

 gray when young, tinged with yellow or rufous hues when old; lamellae 

 thin, subdistant, rounded behind and adnexed, pallid when young, 

 stem equal or tapering upward, from a large, soft, spongy clavate- 

 thickened base, solid, white, peronate and subannulate by the silky- 

 fibrillose white veil, spores elliptical, uninucleate, .0004 to .0005 in. 

 long, .00025 to .0003 broad. 



Pileus 2 to 3 in. broad ; stem 2 to 4 in. long, 4 to 6 lines thick. 



Abundant and gregarious in groves of spruce. North Elba. Sept. 



The species is distinct from its allies by the absence of violaceous 

 hues on the young lamellse and by its large, spongy bulb ous base of 

 the stem. There is no marked odor, but the taste is unpleasant. 



Cortinarius (Inoloma) erraticus, n. sp. 



Pileus fleshy, firm, subcampanulate or convex, obtuse, dry, silky or 

 obscurely squamose with innate fibrils, canescent, often becoming 

 grayish-tawny, flesh dingy-white ; lamellae subdistant, adnexed, pale- 

 tawny, becoming darker with age ; stem firm, solid, thickened toward 

 the base, white and tomentose below, violaceous above; veil violaceous, 

 often forming an imj)erfect annulus and sometimes remaining in frag- 

 ments or floccose scales on the margin of the pileus ; spores elliptical, 

 uninucleate, .0003 in. long, .0002 broad. 



Pileus 2 to 3 in. broad ; stem 2.5 to 4 in. long, 3 to 6 lines thick. 



Groves of balsam. North Elba. Sept. 



This species resembles the preceding one, but is at once distin- 

 guished from it by the violaceous color of the veil and the smaller 



spores. 



Cortinarius (Inoloma) csespitosus, n. sp. 



Pileus fleshy, firm, convex, often irregular from its crowded mode 

 of growth, silky-fibrillose on the margin, pale-yellow or buff color, 

 often a little darker on the disk, flesh white; lamellae thin, close, 

 rounded behind and adnexed, whitish when young, then subochra- 



