CORTINARIUS 133 



I. Partial veil superior, pendulous from the apex of the 

 clavate, or subequal stem as an imperfect ring. 



*Gills pallid, then clay colour. 



330. C. (Phleg.) triumphans Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 682, t. 692. 



Triumphans, triumphal. 



P. 6-12 cm., yellow with a tinge of brown or ochraceous when moist, 

 yellow when dry, disc sometimes variegated with minute, adpressed, 

 spot-like scales, margin brighter coloured, fleshy, convexo-plane, ob- 

 tuse. St. 6-17 x 1-2-5 cm., yellowish white, adorned with tawny scales 

 arranged in many circles, or rings, firm, attenuated upwards from the 

 ovato-bulbous base, striate; partial veil superior, woven, somewhat 

 ringed. Gills whitish, or inclining to very pale bluish grey, then clay 

 colour, and somewhat cinnamon, emarginate, crowded, 6 mm. broad; 

 edge toothed, white. Flesh whitish. Spores brown, punctate, elliptical, 

 9-10 x 4-5/A, 1-guttulate. Taste mild. Woods, heaths, and commons, 

 generally under birches. Sept. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



331. C. (Phleg.) claricolor Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 141, fig. 2. 



Clarus, bright; color, colour. 



P. 7-12 cm., yellow, fleshy, convexo-plane, then depressed, veiled 

 with superficial, silky-pruinose, villose down, at first everywhere, soon 

 only round the margin, then smooth, and for the most part broken up 

 into scales. St. 7-9 x 1-5-2 cm., white, or yellow, hard, clothed up to 

 the superior cortina with fugacious, white, scaly flocci, or lax down, 

 either short and bulbous, or elongated and conico-attenuated, or 

 cylindrical. Gills whitish, then clay colour, emarginate, almost free, 

 or adnate, crowded, edge toothed. Flesh white, compact. Spores brown, 

 punctate, pip-shaped, 10-11 x 6-7 p. Taste pleasant. Woods, and 

 heaths, under birches and conifers. Aug. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



332. C. (Phleg.) turmalis Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 684, t. 694. 



Turmalis, belonging to a troop. 



P. 5-9 cm., yellow-tan, disc often darker, compact, convex, then 

 plane, very obtuse, when young veiled with pruinate, very fugacious, 

 villose down, soon smooth, sometimes obsoletely piloso-virgate. St. 

 7-15 x 2-5 cm., shining white when dry, very hard, rigid, cylindrical, 

 attenuated at the base, when young sheathed with a fugacious, white, 

 woolly veil. Cortina entirely fibrillose, superior and persistent in the 

 form of a ring, at length ferruginous with the spores. Gills white, then 

 clay colour, adnexed, rounded, or emarginate, even decurrent with a 

 tooth, crowded, serrated. Flesh white, soft. Spores ferruginous, palish 

 fuscous under the microscope, elliptical, 8-9 x 5/z. Densely caespitose. 

 Mixed woods, and especially amongst beech leaves. Sept. Oct. 

 Uncommon. 



