THE RUSTY-SPORED AGARICS 



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slightly striate, soft, violaceous, scaly from the remains of the white veil. The 

 spores are elliptical, granular, loxyfi. 



They grow in damp pine woods. The specimens in the photograph were 

 gathered in Purgatory Swamp near Boston, and sent to me by Mrs. Blackford. 

 They are found in August and September. 



Figure 246. Cortinarius evernius. 



TRIBE VI. HYDROCYBE. 



Cortinarius castaucus. Bull. 



The Chestnut-Colored Cortinarius. Edible. 



Castaneus, a chestnut. The pileus one inch or more broad, at first quite small 

 and globose, with a delicate fibrillose veil, which makes the margin appear 

 silvery ; dark-bay or dirty-violet, often with a tawny tint ; soon expanded, broadly 

 umbonate, pileus often cracked on the margin and slightly upturned. 



The gills are fixed, rather broad, somewhat crowded, violet-tinged, then 

 cinnamon-brown, ventricose. Spores, 8x5^. 



The stem is one to three inches high, inclined to be cartilaginous, stuffed. 



