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a band-like annulus half way or lower down on the stem. The annulus is soon 

 rubbed off, leaving- a bare stem. Cortina violaceous-white. Spores 7-9x5-6, al- 

 most smooth. Kan ff man. 



The specimens in Figure 245 were gathered at Detroit, Michigan, and photo- 

 graphed by Dr. Fischer. They grow in groups in damp places, preferring 

 hemlock trees. 



Cortiiiaritis croccocolor. Kauff. sp. nov. 

 Saffron-Colorkd Coktixarics. ( Tki.amonia. ) 



Croceocolor means saffron-colored. 



Pileus 3-7 cm. broad, convex then expanded, saffron-yellow, with dense, 

 dark-brown, erect squamules on disk ; whole surface has a velvety appearance and 

 feel, scarcely hygrophanous, even ; flesh of pileus yellowish-white, rather thin 

 except on disk, slightly hygrophanous. scissile. 



Gills cadmium-yellow (Ridg.). moderately distant, rather thick, emarginate, 

 rather broad, 8-9 mm., width uniform except in front where they taper quickly to 

 a point. 



Stem 4-8 cm. long, tapering upwards from a thickened base. i. c, clavate- 

 bulbous, 9-15 mm. thick below, peronate three-fourths of its length by the crome- 

 yellow to saffron veil, paler above the veil, solid, saffron-colored within, 

 hygrophanous, soon dingy ; attached to strands of yellowish mycelium. Spores 

 subspheroid to short elliptical, 6.5-8x5.5-6.5^, echinulate when mature. 



Found under beech trees in Poke Hollow near Chillicothe. Found in October. 



Cortiiiarius evernius. Fr. 



Evernius comes from a Greek word meaning sprouting well, flour- 

 ishing. 



The pileus is one to three inches broad, rather thin, between membranaceous 

 and fleshy, at first conical, becoming bell-shaped, and finally expanded, very 

 slightly umbonate, everywhere covered with silky, adpressed veil, usually purplish- 

 bay when smooth, brick-red when dry, then pale ochraceous when old, at length 

 cracked and torn into fibrils, very fragile, flesh thin and colored like the 

 pileus. 



The gills are attached to the stem, quite broad, ventricose, somewhat distant, 

 purplish-violet, becoming pale, finally cinnamon. 



The stem is three to five inches long, equal or attenuated downwards, often 



