138 COBTINABITJS 



****Gills olivaceous. 



347. C. (Phleg.) infractus (Pers.) Fr. (= Cortinarius (Phlegmacium) 

 anfractus Fr. sec, Quelet et Bresadola.) Bres. Fung. Trid. 1. 163. 



Infractus, broken. 



P. 5-10 cm., olivaceous-fuliginous, becoming fulvous, fleshy, convex, 

 then plane, streaked, often fuscous zoned near the undulate, broken 

 margin. St. 3-7 x 1-3 cm., concolorous, ovato-clavate, or elongate 

 and bulbous, adpressedly fibrillose, apex often violaceous. Gills oliva- 

 ceous-fuliginous, then umber, crowded, or somewhat distant, broad, 

 undulate, crisped. Flesh yellowish white, somewhat violaceous at the 

 apex of the stem. Spores ferruginous in the mass, somewhat ochraceous 

 under the microscope, subglobose, or broadly elliptical, 6-9 x 4-6 /z,, 

 verrucose. Smell somewhat nauseous. Taste bitter. Woods. Sept. 

 Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



348. C. (Phleg.) praestans (Cordier) Sacc. (= Cortinarius (Phlegma- 



cium) anfractus Fr. sec. Berk., Cortinarius (Phlegmacium) 

 Berkeleyi Cke., Cortinarius torvus Fr. sec. Kalchbr. and Quel.) 

 Boud. Icon. t. 116, as Cortinarius torvus Fr. var. Berkeleyi Cke. 



Praestans, pre-eminent. 



P. 7 - 5-20 cm.., fuliginous, or brown, disc darker, often with a tinge of 

 violet at the margin, at first inclosed in a whitish volva which breaks up 

 in patches on the disc, convex, then expanded, shining when dry, very 

 fleshy, sometimes radiately silky, becoming paler and rivulose with age. 

 St. 10-20 x 3-6 cm., white, covered with the general veil, which is at first 

 violaceous, then pale, often remaining appendiculate at the margin of 

 the pileus, finally becoming ochraceous when old, base bulbous. Gills 

 dingy olive, then cinnamon, adnate, slightly emarginate, broad, scarcely 

 distant. Flesh pale ochraceous, darker under the pellicle of the pileus. 

 Spores yellow-brown, fusiform, minutely verrucose, 15-16 x 8-9 /M. 

 Forming large circles in woods. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



II. Bulb depressed, or turbinate, marginate. St. fleshy, fibrous; 

 cortina commonly inferior, arising from the margin of the bulb. 

 P. equally fleshy. Gills somewhat sinuate. 



*Gills whitish, then clay-coloured, or pale cinnamon. 



349. C. (Phleg.) multiformis Fr. (= Cortinarius rapaceus Fr. sec. 



Quel., Cortinarius talus Fr. sec. Quel.) Boud. Icon. t. 104. 



Multiformis, many shaped. 



P. 47 cm., unicolorous, light yellow, clay yellow, tawny, etc., fleshy, 

 convex, then flattened, very obtuse, at length depressed, very viscid, 

 or somewhat dry, and sprinkled with the universal white veil. St. 

 5-12 x 1-1-5 cm., white, then yellowish, equal, or attenuated upwards, 



