158 CORTINARIUS 



broadly emarginate, 12-15 mm. broad, distant. Flesh white, compact 

 at the disc, thin at the margin, soft. Spores "roundish, 8-9 x 7 /LI, 

 punctate" Eick. Subcaespitose, or solitary. Beech woods. Aug. 

 Sept. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. redimitus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 754, t. 773. 



Redimitus, bound round. 



Differs from the type in the thinner, obtusely umbonate, golden yellmc 

 p. streaked with adpressed darker fibrils, the yellowish, fibrillosely striate 

 st. slightly thickened at the base, and the light yellow gills adnate with a 

 small decurrent tooth. Beech woods. Oct. Rare. 



412. C. (Ino.) callisteus Fr. icd\\i<rTO<;, very beautiful. 

 P. 46 cm., yellow tawny, fleshy, convexo-expanded, rather smooth, 



silky towards the margin, generally broken up into minute, innate 

 squamules. St. 7-12 x 1-1-5 cm., concolorous, or rhubarb colour, 

 clavato-bulbous, equally attenuated upwards, fibrillosely striate. 

 Cortina concolorous, marginal, fibrillose, fugacious. Gills concolorous, 

 adnate, connected together at the base and to the stem byfiocci, plane, sub- 

 distant, 8 mm. broad, thin. Flesh yellowish white, rhubarb colour in 

 the st., thin at the margin. Spores pale ferruginous, broadly elliptical, 

 6-8 x 6fj,, 1-guttulate, "punctate" Rick. Pine woods. July Oct. 

 Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



413. C. (Ino.) vinosus Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 758, t. 759. 



Vinosus, wine colour. 



P. 5-7-5 cm., vinous red, fleshy, semiglobose, then expanded, at 

 length flattened, smooth, shining. St. 5-7-5 x 1 cm., violet, cylin- 

 drical, abruptly thickened into a marginately bulbous, reddish base. 

 Cortina reddish. Gills ferruginous cinnamon, adnexed, ventricose, 

 scarcely crowded. Flesh pale violet, reddish in the st. Spores ferru- 

 ginous, almond-shaped, 16-18 x 8/u, granular. Under trees, and in 

 woods. Sept. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



414. C. (Ino.) Bulliardii (Pers.) Fr. Boud. Icon. t. 109. 



Pierre Bulliard, the eminent French mycologist. 

 P. 4-10 cm., dark rufescent, bay brown blood colour, becoming pale, 

 fleshy, convex, then expanded, obtuse, smooth, or fibrillose. St. 

 5-12 x 1-1-5 cm., whitish above, blood red downwards, and covered with 

 blood red fibrils near the ovate bulb, which arises from a blood red myce- 

 lium. Cortina whitish, fugacious. Gills purplish, then ferruginous, 

 adnexed with a decurrent tooth, 6 mm. broad, somewhat crowded, 

 often crenulated at the whitish edge. Flesh whitish, brownish under the 

 cuticle, and reddish at the base of the st. Spores ferruginous, elliptical, 

 7-8 x 4-5/x, verrucose, 1-guttulate. Woods, especially beech. Sept. 

 Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



