136 CORTINARITTS 



340. C. (Phleg.) variecolor (Pers.) Fr. Varie, diversely; color, colour. 



P. 8-15 cm., date-brown, then fulvous-reddish, disc darker, the tomen- 

 tose margin violet, rarely entirely violet, convex, then expanded, obtuse. 

 St. 5-8 x 2-5-3 cm., white with the apex becoming blue, or blue becoming 

 whitish, hard, stout, base bulbous, diffused upwards into the p., at 

 first villose, then fiocculose. Gills blue, then clay-cinnamon, emarginate, 

 decurrent, somewhat arcuate, thin, 12 mm. wide, margin crenulate. 

 Flesh violaceous, becoming whitish. Spores ferruginous, "almond- 

 shaped, 15-18 x 8-9 /A, warted-rough" Rick. Smell and taste pleasant. 

 Edible. Pine woods. Sept. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. nemorensis Fr. (= Cortinarius (Phlegmacium) balteatus Fr. sec. 

 Quel.) Cke. Illus. no. 692, t. 863. 



Nemorensis, belonging to a wood. 



P. 10-12-5 cm., bay-brown, then yellowish, margin violet, smooth, 

 slightly viscid at first, soon dry, opaque, pilosely rivulose. St. 7-5 x 

 2-5 cm., bluish, becoming white, obclavate, not bulbous, nor villose, apex 

 mealy. Gills rounded, subdecurrent. Flesh white, bluish at the peri- 

 phery. Beech woods. Sept. Oct. (v.v.) 



341. C. (Phleg.) largus Fr. Largus, large. 



P. 5-15 cm., sometimes violet when young, date-brown-tawny, fleshy, 

 compact at the disc, thin at the circumference, convexo-flattened, 

 very obtuse, only slightly viscid, adpressedly silky-fibrillose when dry, 

 commonly rivuloso-squamulose, sometimes fibrillose towards the 

 margin. St. 6-13 x 2-3 cm., white, tinted violaceous, equal, often 

 curved and ascending, wholly fibrillose, apex pruinose. Cortina white, 

 silky, thick, superior, pendulous. Gills bluish-grey-clay-colour, then 

 cinnamon, adnate, or emarginate, crowded, 10-14 mm. broad, 

 minutely denticulate. Flesh whitish-bluish-grey, becoming white when 

 exposed to the air, that of the stem sometimes becoming bloody when 

 bruised, wholly fibrous, firm. Spores ferruginous, pip-shaped, 10- 

 11 x 5-6/x, "rough" Rick. Smell and taste pleasant. Edible. Caes- 

 pitose. Deciduous and pine woods. Sept. Oct. Not uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



342. C. (Phleg.) Riederi (Weinm.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 694, t. 702. 



M. Rieder, of Petrograd. 



P. 5-7-5 cm., ochraceous, compact, campanulate, then expanded, 

 umbonate, glutinous, shining when dry. St. 5-12-5 cm. x 5-12 mm., 

 white, apex violaceous, or lilac, tawny fibrillose, clavate. Gills lilac, then 

 cinnamon, adnate, rather thick, crowded. Flesh greyish- white, be- 

 coming yellow under the cuticle. Spores ferruginous, "warted, almond- 

 shaped, 15-17 x 8-10/Lt " Rick. Pine woods. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



