156 CORTINARITJS 



3-10 x 1-5-2-5 cm., becoming violaceous, attenuated upwards from 

 the bulbous base, villous. Gills purplish violet, at length reddish liver 

 colour, emarginate, 12 mm. broad, somewhat crowded. Flesh paler, 

 becoming bluish near the gills, spongy. Spores ferruginous, "almond- 

 shaped, 13-15 x 7-8 /x, warted " Eick. Smell strong, peculiar. Fir, 

 and larch woods. Oct. Uncommon. 



405. C. (Ino.) alboviolaceus (Pers.) Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 151, fig. 3. 



Albus, white; violaceus, violet. 



P. 5-7-5 cm., whitish violet, fleshy, convex, broadly umbonate, or 

 rather gibbous, dry, beautifully innately silky, the fibrils longitudinally 

 adpressed as in Inocybe geophylla. St. 5-10 x 1-2-5 cm., concolorous, 

 becoming whitish, firm, clavato-bulbous, or conico-attenuated, white 

 villous, fibrillose above with the cortina, and often zoned with the 

 white veil at the middle. Gills greyish lilac, then grey-cinnamon, ad- 

 nate, scarcely emarginate, 4-5 mm. broad, subdistant, subserrulate. 

 Flesh azure blue white, juicy, thick at the disc. Spores ferruginous, 

 oblong elliptical, 9-12 x 5-6/i, punctate. Woods, especially beech. 

 Aug. Oct. Common, (v.v.) 



406. C. (Ino.) malachius Fr. fiaXd^t], a mallow. 



P. 5-10 cm., pale lilac, then fuscous ferruginous, pale brick colour 

 when dry, very fleshy, compact, convex, then expanded, obtuse, or 

 slightly gibbous, hoary with minute, fasciculate down, or silky towards 

 the margin. St. 7-12 x 2-5 cm., bluish lilac, becoming whitish, bulbous 

 base slightly marginate, ventricose, or equal, often deformed, striate 

 with violaceous fibrils, very rarely having a white membranaceous 

 ring. Cortina violaceous, thin. Gills purple, becoming pale, at length 

 watery ferruginous, emarginate, crowded. Flesh violaceous, becoming 

 white, thick, watery, soft in the st. Spores ferruginous, pip-shaped, 

 "10-12 x 6-7 jLt" Cke., "punctate" Rick. Pine, and fir woods. Sept. 

 Rare. 



407. C. (Ino.) camphoratus Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 152, fig. 2. 



Camphoratus, strong scented. 



P. 5-8 cm., lilac, becoming whitish, or yellowish, very fleshy, convex, 

 then flattened, obtuse, silky, becoming smooth. St. 7-13 x 1-2-5 cm., 

 bulbous, or obclavate, peronately woolly when young. Cortina blue, 

 fibrillose. Gills intense azure blue, becoming purple, decurrent, or 

 emarginate, arcuate, thin, crowded. Flesh blue, white at the base of 

 the stem, thick. Spores ferruginous, "somewhat almond shape, 12- 

 14 x 7-8 n, granular" Cke. Smell foetid, exceedingly penetrating, 

 like fenugreek, or curry-powder. Woods, especially pine. Sept. 

 Rare. 



