CORTINARIUS 151 



a few, indistinct fragments of the veil. St. 2-56 cm. x 7-10 mm., 

 beautiful violet, ochraceous at the base, attenuated at both ends, some- 

 what scaly, striate above the fugacious veil. Grills pale, then cinnamon, 

 margin pale, somewhat adnexed, broad in front, moderately distant. 

 Flesh yellowish, livid under the pellicle of the p. Spores ferruginous, 

 elliptical, 8-10 x 5-6 /i, rough, 1-guttulate. Taste "like Ag. campes- 

 tris " Berk. Woods. Sept. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



tfVeil entirely viscid, hence the st. is not floccoso-peronate, but 

 only viscid, acquiring a varnished appearance when dry. 



*Gills whitish, then clay colour. 



390. C. (Myx.) nitidus (Schaeff.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 1189, t. 1191. 



Nitidus, shining. 



P. 4-12 cm., honey-coloured tan, at length whitish, disc tan colour, 

 fleshy, convex, then expanded, gibbous, or almost obtuse, glutinous, 

 when dry the cuticle often cracked in streaks, and appearing minutely 

 fuscous punctate. St. 5-10 x 1-1-5 cm., pallid white and fibrillose 

 when young, then becoming yellowish and naked, base clavate, often 

 curved, tough, elastic, apex at first white-mealy. Cortina slightly 

 fibrillose, fugacious. Gills whitish, soon clay colour, and finally watery 

 cinnamon, truly decurrent, arcuate at first, crowded, narrow, 4 mm. 

 wide. Flesh white. Spores light brown, "broadly pip-shaped, 10- 

 12 x 8ji" Cke. Subcaespitose. Beech woods. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



**Gills at first violaceous, dark blue, or reddish. 



391. C. (Myx.) salor Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 150, fig. 1. 0-0X09, the high sea. 



P. 4-7 cm., grey, bright violaceous round the infiexed margin, at length 

 of the same colour, obtusely conical, or parabolic, soon campanulate, 

 and at length flattened, with a broad umbo on account of the fleshy 

 disc, thin towards the circumference, thinly viscid, fibrillose towards 

 the margin when dried. St. 4-8 x 1-1 -5 cm., white, covered up to the apex 

 with the azure-blue glutinous veil when young, becoming pale when old, 

 conico-attenuatedfrom the bulbous base, gradually elongated. Gills pale 

 grey, with the edge violaceous, or bluish grey, then grey clay colour, or 

 cinnamon, adnate, distant, 4-6 mm. broad. Flesh white, becoming 

 yellow, or faintly azure-blue. Spores ferruginous, "subglobose, 8- 

 9 x 8n, granular" Rick. Woods. Oct. Rare. 



392. C. (Myx.) delibutus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 741, t. 743. 



Delibutus, besmeared. 



P. 3-7-5 cm., light yellowish, fleshy, thin, especially towards the 

 margin, convex, then flattened, obtuse, at length somewhat depressed, 

 viscid with hyaline gluten, slightly silky fibrillose when the gluten has 



