CORTINARIUS 159 



415. C. (too.) bolaris (Pers.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 759, t. 760. 



/3Xo<?, a clod of earth. 



P. 3-7 cm., light yellow red, or pale, variegated with innate, adpressed, 

 spot-like red scales, fleshy, convexo-plane, obsoletely umbonate. St. 

 4-8 cm. x 6-10 mm., pale, variegated with saffron-red, adpressed, fibril- 

 lose scales, sometimes entirely scarlet, apex white, firm, equal. Cortina 

 saffron-red, fibrillose, fugacious. Gills cream colour, then dark cinna- 

 mon, decurrent, or adnate, arcuate, crowded. Flesh white, yellowish 

 in the st., firm. Spores pale ferruginous, broadly elliptical, 6-7 x 5ft, 

 minutely punctate. Taste acrid. Woods, especially beech. Aug. 

 Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



****Gills or veil dark, fuscous, or olivaceous. 



416. C. (too.) pholideus Fr. Grevillea, t. 117, fig. 1. $0X19, a scale. 

 P. 5-10 cm., fawn colour, becoming pale, at length somewhat cinna- 

 mon, fleshy, convex, then flattened, subumbonate and depressed round 

 the umbo, covered with innate, piloso-fasciculate, crowded, fuscous 

 blackish, squarrose scales. St. 7-10 cm. x 6-12 mm., brownish, attenu- 

 ated upwards, sometimes shorter and clavato-bulbous, squarrose with 

 fuliginous, blackish scales up to the cortinate, arachnoid ring, pale 

 violaceous above. Gills violaceous, then day colour, and at length 

 cinnamon, subemarginate, 4-8 mm. broad, thin, crowded. Flesh 

 pallid, thin. Spores ferruginous, broadly elliptical, 6-7 x 4-5 /i, 

 "punctate" Rick. Deciduous woods. Aug. Oct. Common, (v.v.) 



417. C. (too.) sublanatus (Sow.) Fr. Boud. Icon. t. 111. 



Sub, somewhat; lanatus, woolly. 



P. 4 W cm., fawn colour, or olivaceous fawn, becoming tan fuscous, 

 and at length ferruginous, slightly fleshy, campanulate, then expanded, 

 umbonate, clothed with innate, floccose, fuscous squamules. St. 8 

 11 x 1-5 cm., pale ochraceous, conico-elongated, or clavato-bulbous, 

 clothed to the middle with fuscous down, continued into a fibrillose 

 cortina, which does not form a zone, apex slightly violaceous, naked. 

 Cortina yellowish, arachnoid. Gills olivaceous yellowish, or ochraceous 

 ferruginous, then cinnamon, adnate, broader behind, 6 mm. broad, 

 scarcely crowded. Flesh ochraceous yellow, deeper coloured in the st., 

 fairly thick, firm. Spores "ochraceous tawny, subglobose, 8-10/t, 

 apiculate at the one end, verrucose " Boud. Smell of radish. Fir and 

 larch woods. Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 



418. C. (too.) phrygianus Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 153, fig. 3. 



Phrygianus, embroidered. 



P. 5-7 cm., honey colour, fleshy, convex, obtuse, densely covered with 

 simple, black, hispid fibrils. St. 3-8 x 1-1-5 cm., paler than the p., 

 whitish when dry, reticulately clothed with lax, black fibrils, 



