CORTINARIUS 145 



369. C. (Phleg.) herpeticus Fr. epTrerov, a creeping thing. 

 P. 3-8 cm., olivaceous, then dirty tan colour, disc becoming pale, fleshy, 



convexo-plane, obtuse, somewhat spotted, slightly viscid. St. 5- 

 8x1 cm., pallid, firm, unequal, somewhat twisted, fibrillose; bulb 

 napiform, marginate. Gills violet-umber, then fuliginous-olive, slightly 

 emarginate, at first crowded, 46 mm. broad. Flesh of the pileus pale 

 violet when young, then becoming dirty white. Spores "nearly almond- 

 shaped, punctate-rough, 7-8 x 4-5 /A" Rick. Woods. Sept. Rare. 



III. Cortina simple, thin, fugacious, median, or inferior. St. at the first 

 exserted, somewhat thin, rigid-elastic, externally subcartilaginous, 

 polished, shining. P. thin, often hygrophanous. 



*Gills whitish, then clay coloured, or dirty cinnamon. 



370. C. (Phleg.) cumatilis Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 146, fig. 2. KVfia, a wave. 

 P. 48 cm., of a very charming violet, or purple violet, fleshy, convex, 



obtuse, often irregular. St. 5-10 x 1-1-5 cm., white, often curved, 

 cortinate only at the apex, the universal veil (which serves as a pellicle 

 of the p.) ruptured at the base, and adnate to it as a separable, agglu- 

 tinated membrane of the same colour as the p. Gills white, then clay 

 colour, attenuato-adnexed, almost free, crowded, narrow, 4-6 mm. 

 broad, with a small decurrent tooth. Flesh white. Spores ferruginous, 

 pip-shaped, 9-10 x 4-5//,, verrucose. Taste pleasant. Solitary, or 

 subcaespitose. Fir woods. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



371. C. (Phleg.) serarius Fr. Serarius, living on whey. 

 P. 7-10 cm., reddish-tan, fleshy, convex, then plane, obtuse, or 



broadly gibbous, viscid, opaque, appearing as if pruinately silky 

 when dry. St. 10 x 1 cm., white, equal, entirely fibrillose, and soft, 

 polished, shining. Cortina white, inferior, inconspicuous. Gills white, 

 then clay colour, arcuately-adnate with a decurrent tooth, crowded, 

 broad. Flesh white, with a hyaline line near the base of the gills. Spores 

 "thin, fusiform, 7-8 x 3 /A, almost smooth" Rick. Mixed woods. 

 Sept. Oct. Rare. 



372. C. (Phleg.) emollitus Fr. Emollitus, softened. 

 P. 5-8 cm., tawny, then ochraceous yellow, fleshy, globose, then cam- 



panulato-convex, finally plane, or deformed, often fibrillosely virgate, 

 shining when dry; margin incurved, flexuose. St. 4-8 x 1-1-5 cm., 

 white, becoming yellowish, equal, or attenuated downwards, often 

 thickened at the apex, striate, or fibrillose, base sometimes thickened, 

 often compressed, curved, or somewhat twisted. Cortina white, fu- 

 gacious, often appendiculate from the margin of the p. Gills white, 

 then ochraceous, adnate, or emarginate, somewhat distant, 10-12 mm. 

 broad, fragile. Flesh white, very soft. Spores ferruginous, elliptical, 



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