CORTINARIUS 135 



336. C. (Phleg.) lustratus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 688, t. 799. 



Lustratus, purified. 



Entirely whitish. P. 2-5-5 cm., equally fleshy, convex, then ex- 

 panded, very obtuse. St. 2-5-5 cm. x 8-10 mm., equal, rarely attenu- 

 ated at the base, covered with a few fibrils of the white cortina. Gills 

 becoming slightly discoloured, rounded behind, almost free, very 

 crowded, narrow. Flesh white, thick. Spores ochraceous. Amongst 

 grass in sunny places. Oct. Rare. 



**Gills violaceous, or purplish, then cinnamon. 



337. C. (Phleg.) crocolitus Quel. Grevillea, t. 127, fig. 1. 



Kpotcos, saffron; litus, daubed. 



P. 10 cm., bright yellow, disc sprinkled with tender, saffron fiocci, 

 convex. St. 6-10 x 1 cm., white, then citron yellow, fragile, swollen 

 at the base, fibrillose, apex silky, adorned with scales, or woolly zones 

 below the membranaceous, very fragile ring. Cortina white, fugacious. 

 Gills whitish lilac, then nankeen yellow, uncinate, uneven, edge white. 

 Flesh white, then citron yellow, soft. Spores "citron yellow, granular, 

 pruniform, 11-12 x 5-6 p" Bat. Taste becoming bitter. Woods, 

 especially birch. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



338. C. (Phleg.) varius (Schaeff.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 689, t. 698. 



Varius, changeable. 



P. 5-9 cm., bright ferruginous-tawny, or yellow tawny, compact, 

 hemispherico-flattened, very obtuse; margin thin, at first incurved, 

 appendiculate with the cortina. St. 48 x 2-3 cm., shining white, 

 compact, adpressedly flocculose, the superior veil pendulous, base 

 bulbous. Cortina white, silky. Gills violaceous-purplish, then ochraceous- 

 cinnamon with the edge violaceous, emarginate, thin, somewhat crowded. 

 Flesh white, firm. Spores ferruginous, warted, broadly elliptical, 

 8-10 x 6-8ju,, often apiculate at one end. Woods. Sept. Nov. Not 

 uncommon, (v.v.) 



339. C. (Phleg.) cyanopus (Seer.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 690, t. 699. 



KVCLVOS, dark blue; TTOU?, a foot. 



P. 5-8 cm., date-brown-livid, then tan, and opaque, fleshy when un- 

 folded, flattened, obtuse, regular, dry in fine weather. St. 5-10 x 1- 

 2 cm., violaceous, becoming whitish, the apex remaining violaceous, firm, 

 ventricose, base bulbous. Gills intensely violaceous, or pallid bluish- 

 grey, soon becoming cinnamon, adnate, then emarginate, broad, 6- 

 10 mm. wide, not much crowded. Flesh violaceous at the apex of the 

 stem, whitish elsewhere. Spores ferruginous, punctate, pip-shaped, 

 9-10 x 5-6 jLt. Woods and under oaks. Aug. Nov. Not uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



