142 CORTTNARITJS 



var. xanthophyllus Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 713, t. 753. 



fai>#o5, yellow; <f>v\\ov, a leaf. 



Differs from the type in the yellow gills. Woods. Oct. Nov. Rare. 

 (*.*) 



359. C. (Phleg.) turbinatus (Bull.) Fr. Boud. Icon. t. 105. 



Turbo, a spinning- top. 



P. 5-13 cm., unicolorous, dingy yellow, or green, becoming pale, 

 hygrophanous, opaque when dry, fleshy, convex, then flattened, 

 obtuse, at length depressed, orbicular, covered with adpressed fibrils 

 which are deeper coloured and somewhat squamulose at the disc. St. 

 57 x 2-3 cm., concolorous, or paler than the p., sometimes tinged 

 with violet at the apex, equal, cylindrical, springing from a globoso- 

 depressed, distinctly marginate, turbinate bulb. Gills pallid light yellow- 

 ish, sometimes tinted with dark purple, then ferruginous, uncinately 

 adnate, thin, crowded, broad. Flesh white, soft. Spores ferruginous, 

 elliptical, 15 x 7-8 p ("8-10 x 5-6/i" Boud.), verrucose. Taste some- 

 what bitter. Beech woods, and pastures. Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



var. lutescens Eea. Lutescens, becoming yellow. 



Differs from the type in the bright yellow colour of the flesh. Woods, 

 and pastures. Oct. Rare, (v.v.) 



360. C. (Phleg.) corrosus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 715, t. 715. 



Corrosus, gnawed to pieces. 



P. 5-8 cm., clay colour, becoming ferruginous, then pallid, fleshy, 

 compact, expanded, umbilicate, opaque when dry, rivulose, fiocculose, 

 only fugaciously viscid. St. 2-5-5 x 1-2-5 cm., white, cortinately- 

 fibrillose, equal, base marginately bulbous. Gills somewhat ferruginous 

 from the first, emarginate, or rounded behind, very crowded, narrow, 

 4 mm. wide, edge unequal. Flesh white, rarely zoned with violet. 

 Pine woods. Sept. Rare. 



361. C. (Phleg.) fulgens (A. & S.) Fr. Boud. Icon. t. 106. 



Fulgens, shining. 



P. 5-10 cm., orange-tawny, very fleshy, convexo-plane, obtuse, 

 occasionally punctate as if with drops, at length silky-fibrillose, or 

 squamulose. St. 5-10 x 1-5-2 cm., yellow, paler at the apex, equal, 

 densely fibrillose with the yellow cortina which is viscid in wet weather; 

 base acutely marginately bulbous, then depressed and oblique. Gills 

 bright yellow, then tawny, or ferruginous with the spores, emarginate, 

 6-10 mm. broad, somewhat crowded. Flesh white-yellow, compact, 

 then spongy and tan colour. Spores ferruginous, verrucose, pip-shaped, 

 11-12 x 6 p. Smell pleasant, "like fennel" Quel. Woods. Sept. 

 Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



