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and marked with a raised fuscous zone round the split margin. St. 

 6-8 x 12 cm., pale azure-blue, becoming yellowish, firm, fibrillose, 

 striate, base marginately bulbous. Gills azure-blue, then cinnamon, 

 rounded behind, emarginate, crowded, sometimes crisped. Flesh 

 white, or bluish, becoming yellowish. Spores ferruginous, minutely 

 verrucose, broadly elliptical, 9-10 x 5-6/x, with a hyaline apiculus at 

 the one end. Woods, and pastures. Aug. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



354. C. (Phleg.) calochrous (Pers.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 707, t. 713. 



Ka\6<:, beautiful; %p&>9, colour. 



P. 4-8 cm., tawny, yellow round the margin, compact, convex, then 

 plane, obtuse, guttate, often stained with soil; margin involute, 

 flexuose when expanded. St. 4-6 x 1-5-3 cm., yellowish, firm, equal, 

 fibrillose, marginately bulbous, bulb very depressed. Cortina yellow 

 ("amethyst" Quelet), marginal, fugacious. Gills dark blue-purple, 

 then ferruginous, emarginate, crowded, serrated. Flesh white, firm. 

 Spores ferruginous, elliptical, 10-11 x 6-7 /x, minutely punctate. 

 Smell sometimes foetid. Taste mild, sometimes acrid. Pastures, and 

 woods, especially beech. Sept. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



355. C. (Phleg.) caerulescens Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 709, t. 722. 



Caerulescens, becoming azure. 



P. 5-7 cm., blue-violaceous, becoming tinged with ochre especially on 

 the disc, sometimes entirely yellow ochraceous, convex, then convexo- 

 plane, sometimes finally a little depressed at the disc, fleshy, pellicle 

 separable; margin incurved, pubescent, white, then expanded and vio- 

 laceous. St. 4-6 x 1-1-5 cm., blue-violaceous, or violet-amethyst, cylin- 

 drical, conical, fibrillosely silky, then becoming smooth, marginately 

 bulbous, bulb white. Cortina violaceous. General veil fibrillose, viola- 

 ceous, fugacious, little distinct from the cortina. Gills violet-amethyst, or 

 blue-violaceous, becoming rust colour, edge remaining violet for a long 

 time, broadly adnate, deeply emarginate, attenuated in front, rounded 

 behind, wide, somewhat crowded. Flesh pale blue-violaceous, especially 

 in the stem and under the pellicle of the p., becoming whitish, finally 

 tinged with ochre where wounded. Spores ferruginous in the mass, 

 yellow ochraceous under the microscope, elliptical, or somewhat 

 almond-shaped, 12-14 x 7-5/u, or 6-6-5 x 5/z, compressed on the side, 

 verrucose. Taste sweet, or slightly bitter. Woods, especially beech, 

 and fir. Sept. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



356. C. (Phleg.) caesiocyaneus Britz. Cke. Illus. no. 708, t. 721, as 



Cortinarius (Phlegmacium) caerulescens Fr. 



Caesius, bluish grey; icvavos, dark blue. 



P. 5-10 cm., pale blue-violaceous, more or less washed with yellow 

 ochre at the centre, fleshy, convex, then convexo-plane, more or less 



