THE RUSTY-SPORED AGARICS 



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in the American plant, and should not be overlooked. The flesh is more or less 

 tinged with violet. Peck. 50th Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



No one can fail to recognize this plant. The weblike veil in the young plant, 

 the bulbous stem, and the violet tinge throughout will readily distinguish it. 

 It grows in rich hilly country. It grows solitary, and in open woods. 



Figure 238. Cortinarius violaceus. Two-thirds natural size. Caps dark violet. Stems 

 bulbous. Gills violet. 



TRIBE IV. DERMOCYBE. 



Cortinarius cinnamoneus. Fr. 



The Cinnamon Cortinarius. Edible. 



The pileus is thin, convex, nearly expanded, sometimes nearly plane, some- 

 times slightly umbonate, sometimes the pileus is abruptly bent downward; dry, 

 fibrillose at least when young, often with concentric rows of scales on the margin, 

 cinnamon-brown, flesh yellowish. 



The gills are thin, close, firmly attached to the stem, slightly notched, decurrent 



