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often adpressedly fibrillose, with a somewhat marginate bulb. Cortina 

 white, fibrillose, fugacious. Gills whitish, often tinged with violet, then 

 clay colour, emarginate, free, or with a small decurrent tooth, very 

 thin, crowded, edge serrulate. Flesh white, becoming yellowish at the 

 base of the stem. Spores ochraceous-tawny, verrucose, elliptical, 

 10 x 6/1,. Taste mild. Woods, especially beech. Aug. Nov. Not 

 uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. flavescens (Cke.). Cke. Illus. no. 702, t. 709. 



Flavescens, becoming yellow. 

 Differs from the type in the yellow gills, and yellowish flesh. 



350. C. (Phleg.) napus (Fr.). Cke. Illus. no. 703, t. 710. 



Napus, turnip. 



P. 58 cm.., fuliginous, then date-brown-tawny, fleshy, convexo-plane, 

 obtuse, glutinous, margin abruptly bent inwards. St. 5 x 1-2 cm., 

 white, at length becoming yellow at the base, equal, ascending, firm, 

 inserted in an obconic, acutely and obliquely marginate bulb. Gills 

 whitish-fuliginous, emarginate, somewhat distant, broad, crisped. Flesh 

 white, with a horny line at the base of the gills. Spores brownish, ellip- 

 tical, 10 x 5/Lt. Pine woods. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



351. C. (Phleg.) allutus (Seer.) Fr. Cke. lUus. no. 704, t. 752. 



Allutus, washed. 



P. 2-3 cm., rufescent, fleshy, conical, then convex, finally expanded, 

 and sometimes depressed, margin darker. St. 2-3 cm. x 3-4 mm., 

 white, striate with reddish lines below, equal, apex mealy, viscid, base 

 marginately bulbous. Gills whitish, then rufescent, adnate, rather 

 crowded, edge crenulate. Flesh rufescent, thin. Pine woods. Oct. 

 Rare. 



352. C. (Phleg.) talus Fr. (= Cortinarius (Phlegmacium) multiformis 

 Fr. sec. Quel.) Fr. Icon. t. 145, fig. 2. Talus, the ankle bone. 



P. 4-8 cm. , of a yellowish dirty colour, becoming pale, margin somewhat 

 olivaceous, yellowish, fleshy, thin, convexo-plane. St. 7'5 cm. x 12mm., 

 pale, equal, cylindrical, base marginato-bulbous. Gills beautiful straw 

 colour, or ochrey-pallid, emarginate, somewhat crowded. Flesh dingy 

 pallid whitish, watery, with hyaline spots, and variegated with a horny 

 line next the gills. Spores ferruginous, elliptical, 8-10 x 4-5 /A, 1-2- 

 guttulate. Woods. Sept. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



**Gills violaceous, dark blue or purplish, at length cinnamon. 



353. C. (Phleg.) glaucopus (Schaeff.) Fr. Cke. lUus. no. 706, t. 712. 



7\au/co9, pale blue; TTOVS, a foot. 



P. 6-12 cm., dingy yellow, tan-tawny, or clay colour, very fleshy, 

 compact, convex, then flattened, somewhat repand, often fioccoso-scaly 



