134 COBTINARIUS 



333. C. (Phleg.) crassus Fr. (= Hebeloma crassum (Fr.) Eick.) Fr. Icon, 

 t. 142, fig. 1. Crassus, thick. 



P. 6-12 cm., dirty yellow, opaque, very fleshy, convexo-plane, very 

 obtuse, disc depressed, somewhat viscid, the circumference broken up 

 into innate fibrils. St. 5 x 2-5 cm., whitish, either truly bulbous, or 

 stout and equal, fibrillose, apex white-mealy, base often white-tomen- 

 tose. Cortina very delicate, fugacious. Gills pallid-clay colour, then 

 clay colour, rounded behind, crowded, 6 mm. broad. Flesh becoming 

 pallid, pouring out a watery juice when the stem is compressed. 

 Spores "brownish, pale yellow under the microscope, punctate, sub- 

 fusiform, 6-7 x 4ju. Cystidia very abundant, both on the surface 

 and edge of the gill, cylindrical-fusiform, 40-75 x 6-9 /x," Eick. 

 Smell strong. Moist woods, and grassy places. Aug. Oct. 

 Uncommon. 



334. C. (Phleg.) balteatus Fr. (= Cortinarius (Phlegmacium) nemo- 

 rensis Fr. sec. Quel.) Fr. Icon. t. 142, fig. 2. 



Balteatus, girdled. 



P. 7-10 cm., disc tawny-fuliginous, or date colour, beautiful violet, or 

 lilac near the floccose margin (but this colour often disappears with 

 age, or when the plant is dry), compact, flattened, very obtuse, disc 

 depressed, often unequal, shining when dry, innately floccose, fibrillose, 

 and shining towards the margin. St. 4-6 x 2-5-3 cm., whitish, stout, 

 very compact, equal, or ovately bulbous, minutely velvety, and dingy 

 above the fibrillose, adpressed, rusty veil, longitudinally striate, or 

 reticulate below, but sometimes white tomentose. Gills pallid, then 

 somewhat tan colour, emarginate, or rounded behind, or subde- 

 current, rather crowded. Flesh white, compact. Spores ferruginous, 

 pip-shaped, 8-10 x 4-5/i, multi-guttulate. Mixed woods, and 

 amongst pine needles in pine woods. Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



335. C. (Phleg.) sebaceus Fr. Boud. Icon. t. 103. 



Sebum, tallow. 



P. 512 cm., whitish ochraceous, or deep ochraceous, convex, then 

 campanulate, umbonate disc flattened, at first covered over with a 

 whitish pruinose lustre ; margin appendiculate with the remains of the 

 cortina. St. 7-18 x 1-2-5 cm., concolorous, or paler, stout, compact, 

 often twisted and compressed, fusiform towards the fibrillose base. 

 Cortina white, delicate, fugacious. Gills white, then cinnamon, paler 

 near the margin, emarginate, adnate, connected by veins, 8 mm. wide, 

 not crowded. Flesh white. Spores golden yellow, attenuated at the 

 one end, oblong, 12-15 x 5-6/i,, multi-guttulate. Taste pleasant. 

 Mixed woods. Sept. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



