152 CORTINARIUS 



disappeared. St. 5-10 cm. x 6-8 mm., yellowish white, apex snow white, 

 equally attenuated from the slightly bulbose base, or somewhat equal, 

 elastic, viscid up to the white, scanty, fibrillose, fugacious cortins. 

 Gills dark-blue, or violaceous dark-blue, then clay cinnamon, serrulated, 

 pallid or often crisped at the edge, adnate, at length rounded, or slightly 

 emarginate, more or less distant, 4-6 mm. broad. Flesh white. Spores 

 pale ochraceous, "subglobose, 7 x 6-7 /LI, granular" Karst. Taste 

 watery, then slightly pungent. Grassy, and damp places. Sept. Oct. 

 Uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. elegans Massee. Elegans, neat. 



P. and st. very glabrous, yellow-viscid, shining when dry, only apex 

 of stem white, flesh whitish-yellow, gills paler, more crowded. Grassy 

 banks of streams. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



393. C. (Myx.) fflibatus Fr. Illibatus, unimpaired. 

 P. 2-5-5 cm., yellow, disc darker, slightly fleshy, campanulate, then 



convex, at length plane, subumbonate, pellicle viscid. St. 7'5 cm. 

 x 4 mm., white, commonly with reddish dots upwards, slightly attenu- 

 ated upwards, viscid. Cortina superior, fibrillose, very fugacious. 

 Gills flesh-colour, then clay and cinnamon, adnato-decurrent, arcuate, 

 4 mm. broad, thin, crowded. Flesh white, very thin at the circum- 

 ference. Spores cinnamon, elliptical, "15-16 x 6-7 //,, granular" 

 Massee, "subglobose, 7-9 p, granular" Bat. Pine woods. Sept. Oct. 

 Uncommon. 



***Gills at first ochraceous, or cinnamon. 



394. C. (Myx.) stillatitius Fr. Cke. lUus. no. 742, t. 831. 



Stillaticius, dripping. 



P. 4-6 cm., clothed with azure-blue gluten, fuscous-livid when the 

 gluten separates in the form of drops, at length grey-white, slightly 

 fleshy, convex, then plane, subumbonate; margin smooth. St. 5 

 7 cm. x 6-8 mm., sheathed with thick azure-blue gluten which is ex- 

 tended into the cortina, very soft, equally attenuated. Gills dark 

 cinnamon, emarginate, 6 mm. broad. Flesh watery, soft, hygrophan- 

 ous. Spores ferruginous, "subglobose, 8 x 6/x, 1-guttulate" Sacc., 

 "almond-shaped, 13-15 x 7-8 JM, rough. Cystidia on edge of gill, 

 30-40 x 12-20 /LI" Rick. Pastures, and amongst dead leaves. Oct. 

 Uncommon. 



395. C. (Myx.) vibratilis Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 743, t. 744. 



Vibratilis, quivering. 



P. 3-6 cm., yellow, golden when dry and very shining, fleshy at tlte 

 disc, thin elsewhere, convexo-plane, obtuse, very glutinous. St. 4-6 cm. 

 x 4-8 mm., shining white, conically attenuated, or ventricose, equal and 

 flexuose amongst mosses, fragile, very soft. Cortina glutinous, often 





