162 CORTINARIUS 



10 mm., sky blue, becoming whitish, thickened at the base, fragile, 

 silky, stria te, often twisted. Cortina concolorous. Gills bright bluish 

 violet, slightly emarginate, then decurrent, rather crowded. Flesh 

 white, bluish in the st., thick at the disc. Spores " subglobose, 7-10 x 7- 

 9 //,, punctate " Rick. Deciduous woods, especially beech. Sept. 

 Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



427. C. (Derrno.) caninus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 768, t. 765. 



Caninus, belonging to a dog. 



P. 5-10 cm., fuscous brown, becoming bricJc-rufescent or tawny 

 when dry, fleshy, firm, convex, then plane, obtuse, becoming smooth; 

 margin at first whitish, silky. St. 7-12 cm. x 8-12 mm., pale white, 

 apex violaceous, often ochraceous at the thickened, somewhat bulbous 

 base, equal, fibrillose, elastic. Cortina forming a white, or fuscous zone 

 near the apex of the st., fibrillose. Gills bluish grey, or purplish, then 

 cinnamon, emarginate, 6-10 mm. broad, subdistant, thin. Flesh 

 white, becoming yellowish, thick at the disc, soft. Spores ferruginous, 

 elliptical, 9-10 x 6/j,, 1-guttulate. Taste mild. Edible. Deciduous 

 woods, and heaths. Sept. Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



428. C. (Denno.) anomalus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 772, t. 776. 



a, not; o/u,aA.6<?, even. 



P. 36 cm., fuliginous, then rufescent, becoming hoary with separating 

 fibrils, at length yellowish, fleshy, thin, very convex, then expanded, 

 and gibbous. St. 57-5 cm. x 6-8 mm., violaceous above, whitish below, 

 at length becoming pale and somewhat yellow, attenuated from the base, 

 slightly sheathed, fibrillose, or somewhat scaly. Gills more or less 

 violaceous, bluish grey purplish, then cinnamon, adnate, or emarginate, 

 with a decurrent tooth, crowded, thin. Flesh watery, becoming white 

 when dry, violaceous at the apex of the st., thin, soft. Spores ferruginous, 

 elliptical, 8-9 x 6-7/x-, punctate. Taste mild. Edible. Woods, and 

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



429. C. (Dermo.) lepidopus Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 773, t. 850. 



t?, a scale; TTOU<?, a foot. 



P. 1-5-7 cm., umber, with a tinge of violet near the margin, disc be- 

 coming rufescent, fleshy, convex, then expanded, gibbous, smooth. 

 St. 6-12 cm. x 8-12 mm., violet at the apex, dirty white below, attenu- 

 ated upwards, with concentric, fibrillose, darker bands. Cortina whitish, 

 with a tinge of violet. Gills violet, then cinnamon, adnate, rather 

 crowded, thin. Flesh whitish, tinged lilac at the apex of the stem, 

 rather thin. Spores pale ferruginous, ovate, sometimes almost globose, 

 8-9 x 6-7 /x, with a basal apiculus. Woods, and heaths. Aug. Oct. 

 Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



