148 CORTINARIUS 



white, fibrillose, fugacious. Gills bright ochraceous, decurrent by a 

 tooth, thin, very narrow, 2-4 mm. wide, very crowded, linear. Flesh 

 white, soft. Woods. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



380. C. (Phleg.) papulosus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 731, t. 718. 



Papulosus, having pimples. 



P. 6-9 cm., honey -tan colour, disc ferruginous, or fuscous, and here 

 and there gibbous, fleshy, convex, obtuse, then plane, and at length 

 depressed, the cuticle breaking up into minute, granular, fuscous patches 

 when dry. St. 6-7 x 1-1-5 cm., white, firm, equal, or thickened at the 

 base, densely fibrillose, apex naked. Cortina white, inferior, very 

 fugacious. Gills pallid, soon ochraceous, at length very pale yellow 

 cinnamon, adnato-decurrent, crowded, slightly joined behind, separa- 

 ting from the stem when old, and connected by a spurious collar. 

 Flesh white, thick at the disc, thin at the margin. Spores "sub- 

 elliptical, 810 x 5 6/z,, very slightly punctate" Rick. Pine woods. 

 Oct. Nov. Rare. 



var. major Fr. Major, larger. 



P. yellowish, ferruginous, margin much paler, glutinous, disc truly 

 granular. St. at length coloured like the gills, attenuated from the base, 

 filamentous from the inferior veil, apex cortinate. Gills slightly 

 sinuate. 



381. C. (Phleg.) vespertinus Fr. Vespertinus, pertaining to evening. 

 P. 7-9 cm., yellowish ochraceous, disc egg-yellow, fleshy, convex, then 



plane, glutinous, wrinkled and folded at the margin. St. 5-7-5 x 1- 

 1-5 cm., shining white, firm, elastic, incrassated at the base, fibrillose. 

 Cortina pallid, inferior, fugacious. Gills bright and intense fulvous- 

 cinnamon, broadly emarginate, very broad, firm, little crowded, 

 shining. Flesh white, firm. Spores "elliptical, 4r-5 x 34/x,, almost 

 smooth" Rick. Deciduous woods. Oct. Rare. 



****Gills olivaceous, fuliginous. 



382. C. (Phleg.) olivascens (Batsch) Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 147, fig. 2. 



Olivascens, becoming olivaceous. 



P. 3-5 cm., somewhat fuliginous, or bistre olivaceous, becoming pale, 

 somewhat fleshy, convexo-plane, obtuse; margin substriate. St. 7- 

 9x1 cm., silvery, becoming pallid ("whitish lilac, then silvery at the 

 apex, white in the middle and citron yellow at the base" Quel.), attenu- 

 ated upwards, somewhat bulbose, fibrillose, striate. Gills olivaceous, 

 or clay colour, then cinnamon, adnate, emarginate, thin, little crowded. 

 Flesh paler ("violaceous, then reddish" Quel.), thin. Spores "tawny 

 olivaceous, pruniform, 10-12 x 5'5-7/Lt, punctate" Bat. Taste acrid. 

 Damp woods amongst Sphagna. Sept. Rare. 



