CORTINARIUS 143 



362. C. (Phleg.) fulmineus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 717, t. 717. 



Fulmineus, pertaining to lightning. 



P. 4-8 cm., tawny, almost brown, margin orange, variegated with 

 dense, irregular, agglutinated scales, very fleshy, at first hemispherical, 

 and attached to the bulb, then convex, very viscid; margin involute. 

 St. 25 x 11-5 cm., yellow, white cortinate at the apex, when young 

 inclosed in the bulb, bulb very depressed, marginate, rooting, wider 

 than the young p. Gills golden yellow, at length tawny, rounded, thin, 

 very crowded. Flesh white, often yellow at the circumference or wholly 

 yellowish. Spores ferruginous, elliptical, 13-14 x 7-8/A, verrucose. 

 Deciduous woods. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



363. C. (Phleg.) orichalceus (Batsch) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 718, t. 754. 



o/36t'-%a\/co?, copper ore. 



P. 4-13 cm., reddish copper colour, disc darker, often spotted with 

 scales, bluish green towards the margin, convex, then flattened, fleshy; 

 margin incurved, pubescent, or white, then expanded and concolor- 

 ous. St. 5-12 x 1-5-2 cm., pale greenish yellow, more or less covered 

 with the fibrils of the cortina, fibrillosely silky, somewhat cylindrical, 

 base marginately bulbous. Cortina whitish, or very light greenish 

 yellow, then rust colour from the spores. General veil whitish, often 

 becoming reddish copper colour, fibrillose, scarcely distinct from the 

 cortina. Gills yellow tinted greenish, then olive, and finally olive rust 

 colour, slightly adnate, sinuate, or emarginate, attenuated in front, 

 slightly rounded behind, narrow, 4-6 mm. wide, thin. Flesh greenish 

 yellow, then citron yellow under the pellicle of the pileus and in the base 

 of the stem, finally becoming reddish brown in the bulb, with a strong 

 bluish grey horny line at the base of the gills. Spores ferruginous, ellip- 

 tical, or almond-shaped, 10-11 x 6-7 /x, verrucose. Smell strong, "of 

 fennel" Quel. Coniferous woods, and under beeches. Sept. Nov. 

 Uncommon, (v.v.) 



364. C. (Phleg.) elegantior Fr. Ekgantior, neater. 

 P. 7-10 cm., tawny, often spotted with drops, fleshy, convex, then 



plane, margin split. St. 5-7 x 2-3 cm., becoming yellowish, stout, 

 fibrillose, base marginately bulbous. Cortina pale. Gills egg-yellow, 

 becoming olivaceous, sinuate, thin, crowded, serrulate. Flesh becoming 

 yellow. "Spores sphaeroideo-ellipsoid, dark or yellowish (under the 

 microscope), 11-14 x 7-8 ju, " Sacc. Woods. Oct. Eare. 



365. C. (Phleg.) testaceus Cke. (= Cortinarius rufo-olivaceus Fr. sec. 

 Maire.) Cke. Illus. no. 1188, 1. 1190. Testaceus, brick coloured. 



P. 7-10 cm., brick-red, rather vinous, becoming paler, fleshy, convex, 

 then flattened, umbonate, or depressed. St. 7-9 x 1-5 cm., whitish 



