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notice two well defined arachnoid veils, the lower one being much more dense. 

 Prof. Fries speaks of them as follows : "Exterior veil woven, red, arranged in 

 2-4 distant cinnabar zones encircling the stem ; partial veil continuous with the 

 upper zone, arachnoid, reddish-white." The specimens in Figure 243 were 

 collected in Michigan and photographed by Dr. Fischer of Detroit. A number of 

 this species form a prize for the table. 



Cortinarius Atkinsonianus. Kauff. 



Atkinsonianus 

 is named in 

 honor of Prof. 

 Geo. F. Atkin- 

 son. 



The pileus is 

 8 cm. broad, ex- 

 panded, wax- 

 yellow or gall- 

 stone-yellow to 

 clay-colored and 

 tawny (Ridg.), 

 colors very strik- 

 ing and some- 

 t i m e s several 

 present at once ; 

 viscid, smooth, 

 even, somewhat 

 shining w hen 

 dry. Flesh thick, 

 except at mar- 

 gin, bluish-white 



like the stem, or paler, scarcely or not at all changing when bruised. 



The gills are comparatively narrow, 6-8 mm., width uniform except near outer 



end, adnate, becoming slightly sinuate, purplish to yellow, then cinnamon. 

 The stem is violaccus-blue, 8 cm. long, 12-15 mm. thick, equal or slightly 



tapering upward, bulbous by a rather thick, marginate bulb 3 cm. thick, hung with 



fibrillose threads of the universal veil, which is a beautiful pale-yellow and clothes 



the bulb even at maturity; violaceous-blue within, solid. Spores 1 3-1 5/1x7-8. 5/x, 



very tubercular. Kauff. 



The specimens in Figure 244 were found in Poke Hollow near Chillicothe. 



I have found them on several occasions. They are edible and of very good flavor. 



Found from September to frost. The specimens illustrate the spider-like veil 



that gives rise to the genus. 



K J44. 



-Cortinariu< Atkinsonianus. Caps waxy-yellow, bulbous stem, 

 spider-like veil. 



