144 CORTINABIUS 



above, becoming rufous at the base, attenuated upwards, longitudinally, 

 fibrously striate below; base submarginate, bulbous. Gills dusky 

 cinnamon, adnate, a little emarginate behind, 6-10 mm. wide. Flesh 

 rather flesh-colour, becoming ruddy at apex and base of stem. Spores 

 elliptical, 9-11 x 5-6 /LI, rarely 16 x 8/x, narrowed at each end, 

 verrucose. Woods, amongst leaves. Sept. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



****Gills olivaceous. 



366. C. (Phleg.) prasinus (Schaeff.) Fr. Boud. Icon. t. 107. 



Trpdo-ov, a leek. 



P. 5-8 cm., olivaceous, aeruginous, or tawny ferruginous, tiger-spotted 

 as if scaly, convex, then plane and depressed at the centre, adpressedly 

 fibrillose; margin involute. St. 5-8 x 1-2 cm., concolorous, equal, or 

 slightly attenuated upwards, fibrillosely silky; base marginately bul- 

 bous. Cortina whitish, or pallid-green. Gills yellow-olivaceous, or 

 somewhat olivaceous, darker and cinereous olivaceous at the base, 

 emarginate, undulate. Flesh dingy white, greenish white in the stem, 

 olivaceous under the pellicle of the p. and at the base of the stem. 

 Spores ferruginous in the mass, ochraceous under the microscope, 

 elliptical, 12-15 x 6-8 /A, verrucose. Smell none, or "of sulphur" 

 Quel. Taste mild. Beech woods. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



367. C. (Phleg.) atrovirens (Kalchbr.) Fr. Kalchbr. Icon. t. 19, fig. 3. 



Ater, black; virens, green. 



P. 510 cm., dark green, or olivaceous green, compact, convex, ob- 

 tuse. St. 5-8 x 1-2 cm., yellow, firm, equal, fibrillose, except the sub- 

 turbinate, marginate bulb. Gills sulphur colour, then greenish, at length 

 cinnamon, adnate, 6-8 mm. broad, crowded. Flesh greenish yellow, 

 then darker. Spores ferruginous, "elliptical, 10 x 6/4" Massee. 

 Mycelium sulphur colour. Pine woods. Oct. Nov. Rare. 



368. C. (Phleg.) scaums Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 721, t. 755. 



with projecting ankles. 



P. 5-10 cm., of a peculiar tawny fuliginous colour, more tawny when 

 dry, tiger-spotted, fleshy, convex, then plane and depressed; margin 

 thin, slightly striate when old. St. 6-8 cm. x 8-10 mm., azure-blue, or 

 olivaceous, becoming white and also yellowish when old, attenuated up- 

 wards, fibrillosely striate; base marginately bulbous, the bulb some- 

 times evanescent. Cortina greenish, fibrillose. Gills purplish-olivace- 

 ous, olivaceous, or fuliginous, attenuato-adnexed, rounded, 2-4 mm. 

 broad, thin, very crowded. Flesh watery, thin, soft. Spores ferru- 

 ginous, broadly elliptical, 10-11 x 6-7 \L, "punctate-rough" Eick. 

 Taste mild. Woods, and bogs. Sept. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



