132 STROPHARIA. CORTINABIUS 



328. S. hypsipus Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 132, fig. 2. vtyl-Trovs, high-footed. 



P. 5-9 cm., livid fuscous when moist, pallid tan when dry, somewhat 

 fleshy, campanulate, then convexo-plane, obtuse, smooth, hygrophan- 

 ous', margin somewhat striate when moist. St. 715 cm. x 4-8 mm., 

 white, fragile, equal, smooth. Ring white, membranaceous, median, 

 distant, persistent. Gills white, then fuscous, adnate, at length sepa- 

 rating, subdistant. Flesh white, very thin. Spores "brown, elliptical, 

 12-14 x 6-7 fj," Massee. Damp places amongst grass, sometimes on 

 twigs. Oct. Rare. 



329. S. cothurnata Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 132, fig. 3. 



KoBopvos, a high hunting boot. 



P. 12-5 cm., white, submembranaceous, convex, then plane, obtuse, 

 smooth, silky smooth under a lens. St. 3-5 cm. x 2-3 mm., white, 

 equal, sof t, fioccosely villose below the ring, smooth above. Ring white, 

 median, narrow. Gills white, becoming fuscous, adnexed, ventricose, 

 crowded. Flesh watery white, thin at the disc. Shady fir woods. 

 Rare. 



S. lacrimabunda (Bull.) Quel. = Hypholoma velutinum (Pers.) Fr. 



S. pyrotricha (Holmsk.) Quel. = Hypholoma pyrotrichum (Holmsk.) 

 Fr. 



**With an arachnoid or filamentous general veil. 



1. Veil forming an arachnoid, fugacious ring on the stem. 



Spores ochraceous, or ferruginous. 



Cortinarius FT. 



(Cortina, a veil.) 



Pileus fleshy, regular. Veil arachnoid, distinct from the pellicle of 

 the pileus, viscid, or dry. Stem central. Gills adnate, sinuate, sinu- 

 ato-adnate, or decurrent, pulverulent with the spores at maturity. 

 Spores ochraceous, citron yellow, golden, clay colour, cinnamon, 

 ferruginous, tawny, or fuscous; oval, elliptical, pip-shaped, oblong 

 elliptical, almond-shaped, or fusiform; smooth, verrucose, granular, 

 aculeolate, or echinulate, continuous. Cystidia none on the surface 

 of the gills (except 333), rarely on the edge. Growing on the ground, 

 solitary, caespitose, or subcaespitose. 



1. Phlegmacinm Fr. 



(<j>\eyna, phlegm.) 

 Veil viscid on the pileus, arachnoid, dry on the stem. 



