THE RUSTY-SPORED AGARICS 



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Cortinarius armillatus. Fr. 

 The Red-Zoned Cortinarius. Edible. 



Armillatus means ringed ; so called because the stem is banded with one or 

 more rings, or red bands. The pileus is two to four inches broad, fleshy, not 

 compact, bell-shaped, then expanded, soon innately fibrillose and torn into scales, 

 smooth when young, reddish-brick-color, margin thin, flesh dingy-pallid. 



The gills are very broad, distant, adnate, slightly rounded, pallid, then dark- 

 cinnamon. 



Figure 243. Cortinarius armillatus. Two-thirds natural size, showing the rings on the stem. 



The stem is fairly long, solid, bulbous, whitish, with two or three red zones, 

 somewhat fibrillose. The spores iox6ju,. 



This is a very large and beautiful Cortinarius and it has such a number of 

 striking ear marks that it can be easily recognized. The thin and generally uneven 

 margin of the pileus and the one to four red bands around the stem, the upper one 

 being the brightest, will distinguish this species from all others. It is found in 

 the woods in September and October. In quite young specimens the collector will 



