CORTINARIUS 149 



-. Myxaciuni I' r. 



(fjbv^a, mucus.) 



General veil glutinous. Stem viscid. Pileus slightly fleshy. 

 fSt. floccoso-peronate, the flocci at first covered with gluten. 



383. C. (Myx.) arvinaceus Fr. (= Cortinarius (Myxacium) mucosus 



(Bull.) Quel., (Myxacium) alutipes (Lasch) Fr. sec. Quel.) Cke. 



Illus. no. 734, t. 739, as Cortinarius (Myxacium) mucosus Fr. 



Arvinaceus, greasy. 



P. 6-10 cm., orange-tawny, or reddish tan, fleshy, soft, convex, then 

 soon flattened, at length reflexed and undulating, viscid, glistening 

 when dry; margin slightly striate when in full vigour. St. 10-20 x 1- 

 1-5 cm., white, equal, silky-viscous. Cortina soon fibrillose, fugacious. 

 Gills straw colour, then bright ochraceous, adnato-decurrent, very broad, 

 12-18 mm., somewhat distant, edge crenulate. Spores ochraceous, 

 "fusiform, 15-17 x 8-9 /x, rough" Eick. Beech woods. Oct. Bare. 



384. C. (Myx.) collinitus (Sow.) Fr. (= Cortinarius (Myxacium) muci- 

 fluus Fr. sec. Quel.) Cke. Illus. no. 735, t. 740, as Cortinarius 

 (Myxacium) mucifluus Fr. Collinitus, besmeared. 



P. 6-11 cm., orange-tawny, fleshy, not compact, convex, with the 

 margin bent inwards, then expanded, obtuse, covered with persistent 

 orange-tawny gluten, shining when dry. St. 7-12 x 1-2-5 cm., violace- 

 ous, white, or yellowish, firm, cylindrical, at length soft, covered with 

 afloccose, glutinous veil, which is commonly broken up into concentric 

 scales, near the apex the gluten is continuous with that of the p. 

 and forms an entirely viscous, fugacious ring. Gills whitish-bluish- 

 grey, or clay colour then cinnamon, adnate, somewhat crowded. Flesh 

 whitish, brownish under the cuticle of the p. and at the base of the st. 

 Spores ferruginous, pip-shaped, 10-11 x 6/x,, rough. Woods. July 

 Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



385. C. (Myx.) mucosus (Bull.) (= Cortinarius (Myxacium) alutipes 

 (Lasch) Fr. and (Myxacium) arvinaceus Fr. sec. Quel.) Boud. 

 Icon. t. 108. Mucosus, full of mucus. 



P. 4-10 cm., chestnut, fleshy, campanulato-convex, then expanded, 

 covered with chestnut gluten, margin paler, striate. St. 5-15 x 2 cm., 

 whitish ochre, or ochraceous, cylindrical, slightly attenuated at the 

 base, fibrillosely tomentose. Cortina white, glutinous. Gills whitish, 

 then cinnamon, adnate. Flesh whitish, tinged with chestnut under the 

 cuticle of the p. and at the base of the st. Spores tawny, verrucose, 

 lemon-shaped, 14-17 x 7-8/x. Pine woods. Aug. Oct. Not un- 

 common, (v.v,) 



