CORTINARIUS 157 



408. C. (Ino.) hircinus (Bolt.) Fr. (= Cortinarius amethystinus 

 (Schaefl.) Quel.) Bolt. Hist. Fung. t. 52. Hircinus, of a goat. 



P. 4-5 cm., violet, disc at length becoming ferruginous, fleshy, convex, 

 obtusely gibbous, silky with adpressed, violet fibrils. St. 4-5 x 1-5 cm., 

 violet, becoming pallid, yellowish at the bulbous base, cortinate. Gills 

 violet, then cinnamon, emarginate, broad, thin, subdistant. Flesh 

 dingy, becoming yellowish especially at the base of the st., thick. Spores 

 ferruginous, "8-5-10 x 4-5-5-5/z, minutely verrucose" Maire. Smell 

 strong like goats, or burnt horn. Pine woods. Sept. Rare. 



***Gills or veil cinnamon, red, or ochraceous. 



409. C. (Ino.) traganus Fr. (= Cortinarius amethystinus (SchaefL) 

 Quel.) Cke. Illus. no. 752, t. 757. rpdyos, a goat. 



P. 4-8 cm., lilac purplish, becoming pale and finally yellowish, very 

 fleshy, convex, then flattened, obtuse, dry, silky, becoming smooth. 

 St. 7-12 x 1-2-5 cm., violaceous, then whitish, spongy, attenuated up- 

 wards, base villous, very bulbous, silky, then fibrillose. Cortina pallid 

 violaceous, continuous with the silky covering of the p. Gills saffron- 

 ochraceous, then cinnamon, emarginate, very broad, thick, distant, edge 

 often somewhat crenate. Flesh yellowish, thick, deep saffron-ochraceous 

 in the spongy st. Spores bright ferruginous, elliptical, 8-10 x 5-6 p, 

 verrucose, 1-guttulate. Smell foetid like goats, or the larvae of Cossus. 

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



var. finitimus Weinm. Finitimus, nearly related. 



Differs from the type in the yellowish mottled flesh of the st., and the 

 pleasant smell, like gum just beginning to ferment, or like camphor. 



410. C. (Ino.) sufflus Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 152, fig. 3. 



Suillus, pertaining to swine. 



P. 710 cm., dingy, or pallid brick-red, fleshy, convex, obtuse, at 

 length floccosely squamulose, silky towards the margin. St. 7-10 x 1- 

 2-5 cm., dingy pallid, clavato-bulbous, attenuated upwards, darker 

 when touched, fibrillose, apex pale violaceous, fugacious, base white- 

 woolly. Gills cinnamon, opaque, adnate, 10-12 mm. broad, subdis- 

 tant, fragile, often veined at the base. Flesh dirty pale brick colour, 

 especially in the st., thick at the disc, thin elsewhere. Spores "ellipsoid, 

 obtuse at the ends, 10-12 x 6-8 fj," Sacc. Fir, and pine woods. 

 Sept. Nov. Rare. 



411. C. (Ino.) tophaceus Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 153, fig. 1. Tophus, tufa. 

 P. 7-10 cm., golden tawny, opaque, fleshy, hemispherical, villosely 



squamulose, varying slightly silky, and shining. St. 5-10 x 1-5-2 cm., 

 tawny, slightly attenuated upwards from the bulbous base, villosely 

 squamulose, often twisted. Gills concolorous, then tawny cinnamon, 



