154 CORTINARIUS 



obtuse, fibrillosely silky, here and there minutely squamulose, becoming 

 smooth with age, rather rimose, opaque. St. 6-10 x 2-3 cm., white, 

 floccoso-squamulose, becoming smooth and yellowish, ovately bulbous, 

 or ventricose at the base, often curved and prolonged below the 

 bulb into a pointed root. Veil white, superior, simple, forming a ring 

 when young, rarely noticeable when mature. Gills white, then clay 

 colour, adnate, somewhat distant. Flesh very hard, white ("becoming 

 red on exposure to the air " Quel.). Spores pale ferruginous, elliptical, 

 7 8x4/i, verrucose, "almond-shaped, 13-15x8-9 p, coarsely warted " 

 Eick. Deciduous woods. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



399. C. (Ino.) turgidus Fr. Grevillea, t. 109, fig. 1. 



Turgidus, swollen. 



P. 5-10 cm., clay colour, silvery-shining when full grown, very fleshy, 

 compact, convex, then plane, very obtuse, hoary, rarely sprinkled with 

 shining atoms; margin silky and white when young. St. 4-6 x 2 cm., 

 silvery white, stout, bulbous base much swollen, externally cartilaginous, 

 elastic, longitudinally fibrillose under a lens, and split up into sub- 

 reticulate cracks, often undulate. Cortina white, fibrillose, fugacious. 

 Gills whitish, then clay colour, emarginate, crowded, 4 mm. broad, 

 denticulate. Flesh whitish, tough. Spores ferruginous, pip-shaped, 

 7-9 x 4-5-6/x, 1-guttulate. Taste pleasant. Edible. Woods. Sept. 

 Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



400. C. (Ino.) argentatus (Pers.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 745, t. 745. 



Argentatus, silvered. 



P. 4-10 cm., silvery-shining, disc becoming pale, at first silky-lilac 

 round the margin, then dun-coloured, fleshy, convexo-plane, at length 

 broadly gibbous, silky. St. 8-10 x 1-5-2 cm., concolorous, attenuated 

 from the thickened base. Gills pallid, then watery cinnamon, emar- 

 ginate, crowded; edge slightly serrated, white. Flesh whitish, often 

 with a bluish tinge. Spores ferruginous, pip-shaped, 8-9 x 5/A, punc- 

 tate. Smell and taste pleasant. Woods. Sept. Oct. Not uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



var. pinetorum Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 746, t. 746. 



Pinetorum, of pine woods. 



Smaller. P. 5 cm., at first lilac and silky. St. 5 cm. Smell weak. 

 Pine woods. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



401. C. (Ino.) fusco-tinctus Eea. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. v, t. 8. 



Fuscus, dark; tinctus, stained. 



P. 26 cm., pale ochraceous, becoming blood red immediately in places 

 where touched, then fuscous especially around the margin, fleshy, con- 

 vex, subgibbose, fibrillosely silky, disc floccosely squamulose under a 



