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radially streaked with innate fibrils, sometimes marked with loose, 

 white patches, the remains of the volva. St. 5-8 cm. x 12-15 mm., 

 bluish, then becoming pale, and finally whitish, attenuated upwards from 

 the distinctly marginate, bulbous base, fibrillose; bulb white from the 

 first, the margin often forming a ledge, or sheath. Cortina bluish, 

 fugacious. Gills whitish, then bluish white, and finally clay colour and 

 rust colour, narrowly adnate, slightly sinuate, or emarginate, thin, 

 crowded, somewhat narrow. Flesh yellowish, whitish in the bulb, bluish 

 in the stem. Spores ferruginous in the mass, yellowish brown under 

 the microscope, almond-shaped, 10-12-5 x 5-6 /A (" 8-10 x 4-5 /A " 

 Britz.), verrucose. Smell faint, like that of Cortinarius purpurascens. 

 Taste pleasant. Fir woods. Sept. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



357. C. (Phleg.) purpurascens Fr. Cke. lUus. no. 710, t. 723. 



Purpurascens, becoming purple. 



P. 6-15 cm., bay brown, or date brown olivaceous, then tawny olivace- 

 ous, fleshy, convex, obtuse, glutinous, opaque when dry, tiger-spotted, 

 often depressed round the margin which is at first inflexed, then 

 repand, and marked with a raised, violet fuscous zone. St. 5-9 x 1-5 

 3 cm., intensely pallid azure-blue, darker when touched, fibrillose, base 

 bulbous, somewhat marginate. Gills azure-blue-clay, then cinnamon, 

 violaceous purple when bruised, broadly emarginate, 6-12 mm. wide, 

 crowded. Flesh azure-blue. Spores ferruginous, rough, elliptical, 

 9-11 x 5/Ji. Woods, and heaths. Sept. Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



var. subpurpurascens Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 712, t. 725. 



Subpurpurascens, becoming somewhat purple. 

 Differs from the type in the thinner, somewhat virgate p., becoming 

 pale, in the somewhat equal, bluish white, somewhat marginately bulbous 

 stem only fibrillose at the base, in the pallid, then cinnamon gills be- 

 coming somewhat purplish when rubbed, and in the flesh in young 

 specimens becoming purplish when broken, and finally white. Woods. 

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



*** Gills ferruginous, tawny, or yellow. 

 358. C. (Phleg.) dibaphus Fr. Saund. & Sin. t. 10. 



St-/3a(o9, twice dyed. 



P. 5-10 cm., purplish, disc yellowish, and at length variegated with 

 lilac, fleshy, convex, then plane, at length depressed, somewhat re- 

 pand. St. 6-9 x 1-3 cm., yellow, shining purplish at the apex, fibril- 

 lose, base marginato-bulbous. Gills purplish-ferruginous, adnate, 

 slightly rounded, somewhat crowded, broad ("margin lilac" Quel.). 

 Flesh white, then yellow, variegated under the pellicle with a violet line. 

 Spores purplish brown, pip-shaped, 12-14 x 7-8/u, verrucose. Smell 

 and taste mild. Beech, and oak woods. Sept. Nov. Uncommon, 



