150 CORTINARIUS 



386. C. (Myx.) mucifluus Fr. (= Cortinarius (Myxacium) collinitus 



Sow. sec. Quel.) Fr. Icon. t. 148, fig. 1. 



Mucus, mucus; <f>\va), I boil over. 



P. 3-9 cm., livid-clay, tan when dry, opaque, thin, somewhat fleshy, 

 campanulate, then expanded, at length reflexed and repand, smeared 

 with separating, hyaline gluten; margin membranaceous, striate. St. 

 white, or inclining to azure-Uue, spongy, attenuated downwards, viscid 

 with the floccose-scaly fugacious veil. Gills clay colour, then watery 

 cinnamon, adnate. Spores ferruginous, almond-shaped, granular, 

 12 x 7fji. Cystidia "on edge of gill, vesiculose, 30-45 x 18-30 /x" 

 Kick. Pine woods. Aug. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



387. C. (Myx.) elatior Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 149, fig. 1. Elatior, taller. 

 P. 6-12 cm., livid-light-yellow when moist, dingy ochraceous when dry, 



sometimes whitish, tan fuscous, date brown, violaceous brown, black, 

 whitish round the margin, or grey with the margin violaceous, slightly 

 fleshy only at the disc, cylindrical, or bullate, then campanulate, 

 afterwards flattened and somewhat reflexed, disc above the stem 

 obtuse, membranaceous and longitudinally plicato-wrinkled at the sides, 

 fragile. St. 718 x 1-5 cm., violaceous, lilac, becoming white, com- 

 monly attenuated at both ends, especially at the base, fibrillosely 

 fioccose. Cortina concolorous, viscid, fugacious. Gills ochraceous, or 

 lilac, then dark brown cinnamon, adnate, broad, connected by veins 

 or wrinkled at the sides. Flesh whitish, or pale yellowish. Spores 

 purplish-ferruginous, almond-shaped, 12-14 x 6/z, verrucose. Cystidia 

 "on edge of gill vesiculose-pyriform, 36-45 x 21-28 ju," Rick. Woods. 

 Aug. Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



388. C. (Myx.) grallipes Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 738, t. 734. 



Grallae, stilts; pes, foot. 



P. 4-8 cm., ferruginous when moist, ochraceous tan when dry, opaque, 

 almost membranaceous with the exception of the prominent, often 

 acutely umbonate disc, campanulate, then flattened, hygrophanous, 

 very viscid when wet. St. 10-15 cm. x 4-6 mm., yellowish tawny, 

 ochraceous when dry, tough, equal, flexuose, fibroso-striate, viscid. 

 Cortina pale, whitish brown, fugacious. Gills clay colour, then ferru- 

 ginous, adnate with a decurrent tooth, 12 mm. broad, attenuated in 

 front, crowded. Flesh white. Spores ferruginous, "7-8 x 4 5/x," 

 Herpell. Caespitose. Mixed woods, and under oaks and poplars. 

 Oct. Uncommon. 



389. C. (Myx.) livido-ochraceus Berk. Cke. Illus. no. 739, t. 767. 



Lividus, livid; ochraceus, ochre. 



P. 2-5-5 cm., livid-ochre, somewhat membranaceous, convex, then 

 plane, cuticle thick, subcartilaginous, margin very thin, often with 



