CORTINARIUS 137 



***Gills yellow, cinnamon, or ferruginous. 



343. C. (Phleg.) percomis Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 143, fig. 2. 



Percomis, very friendly. 



P. 5-7 cm., pale yellow, truly fleshy, compact, convex, obtuse. St. 

 6-8 x 1-2 cm., sulphur yellow, compact, firm, fusiform, or davate, 

 fibrillose, apex pruinose. Cortina citron yellow. Gills sulphur yellow, 

 becoming fulvous, broadly emarginate, crowded, 4-6 mm. wide. Flesh 

 sulphur yellow, compact. Spores ferruginous in the mass, broadly 

 elliptical, 12-14 x 8-9 /x, " warted-punctate " Rick. Smell pleasant, 

 "like lavender" Quel, "like toilet vinegar" Peltereau. Taste pleasant. 

 Edible. Pine woods. Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 



344. C. (Phleg.) latus (Pers.) Fr. Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 162. 



Latus, broad. 



P. 6-10 cm., tan colour, disc darker, fleshy, convex, then expanded, 

 obtuse, slightly viscid, soon dry, fibrillose, then glabrous. St. 5- 

 7 x 1-5-2 cm., white, equal, base ovately bulbous, rarely emargi- 

 nately bulbous, somewhat squamose, then fibrillose. Cortina white, 

 superior, forming a ring, fugacious. Gills pallid, then clay cinnamon, 

 emarginate, 6 mm. broad, crowded, distantly dentate. Flesh white. 

 Spores ochraceous, punctate, minutely rough, oblong elliptical, 10- 

 13 x 6-7 /i. Taste pleasant. Gregarious, or subcaespitose. Coniferous 

 woods. Oct. Rare. 



345. C. (Phleg.) saginus Fr. Saginus, fattened. 



P. 10-12-5 cm., yellow, fleshy, plano-convex, irregular, repand. St. 

 7-5 x 2-5-3 cm., light yellowish, somewhat bulbous, fibrillose, apex 

 naked. Cortina fibrillose, fugacious, not very conspicuous. Gills 

 dingy-pallid, then cinnamon, truly decurrent, 8-10 mm. broad, attenu- 

 ated at both ends, edge eroded. Flesh white, soft. Spores "pale 

 yellow under the microscope, almond-shaped, 10-11 x 6-6-5 /n, 

 warted-punctate" Rick. Gregarious, subcaespitose. Mountainous 

 fir woods. Oct. Rare. 



346. C. (Phleg.) russus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 696, t. 751. Russus, red. 



P. 6-10 cm., unicolorous, rufous, fleshy, convex, then flattened, ob- 

 tuse, innately fibrillose round the margin. St. 7-5 x 1-5-2 cm., pale 

 white, attenuated upwards, often curved-ascending, soft, adpressedly 

 fibrillose, apex delicately pruinose. Cortina concolorous, very tender, 

 fugacious. Gills rufous-ferruginous, obtusely adnate, 8-10 mm. broad, 

 crowded, connected by veins. Flesh whitish- flesh-colour, violaceous 

 under the cuticle. Spores ferruginous, elliptical, 8-12 x 5-7 /z, " warted- 

 punctate " Rick. Taste bitter, nauseous. Woods. Sept. Oct. Un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



