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430. C. (Dermo.) myrtillinus Fr. fj,vpro<;, the myrtle. 

 P. 3-7-5 cm., fuliginous, tinged with lilac, becoming hoary silky 



with the dense white fibrils, fleshy, convex, gibbous, becoming plane. 

 St. 5-7 cm. x 6-12 mm., whitish, streaked with sparse,, lilac fibrils, 

 tough, slightly bulbous. Cortina white, fibrillose. Gills pure amethyst- 

 azure-blue, scarcely changing colour, adnate, subdistant, edge whitish, 

 denticulate. Flesh fuscous, becoming whitish when dry, violaceous at the 

 apex of the St., tough, thin. Spores pale ferruginous, broadly elliptical, 

 7-8 x 6/ji. Woods. Sept. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



431. C. (Dermo.) albocyaneus Fr. Albus, white; icvavos, dark blue. 

 P. 2-3 cm., white, becoming yellow, fleshy, convexo-plane, obtuse, 



hoary silky, becoming smooth. St. 6-10 x -5-1-5 cm., white, sub- 

 clavate, naked. Cortina white, fugacious. Gills bluish purple, then 

 somewhat ochraceous, emarginate, 6-8 mm. broad, crowded. Flesh 

 white, thick at the disc. Spores pale ferruginous, elliptical, 10 x 6-7 /x, 

 punctate. Smell "of apple" Quel. Coniferous, birch, and beech 

 woods. Sept. Uncommon. 



432. C. (Dermo.) spilomeus Fr. Fr. Icon. 1. 154, fig. 3. 0-774X09, a spot. 

 P. 3-7 cm., rufescent, or clay colour, fleshy, convex, then expanded, 



gibbous, becoming smooth. St. 5-7 x 1 cm., whitish lilac, covered in 

 the basal half with rufous, or tawny scales, equal, slightly thickened at 

 the base. Cortina white, fibrillose. Gills bluish grey, or violaceous, be- 

 coming pale, at length watery cinnamon, adnate, or emarginate, crowded, 

 thin. Flesh cinereous, becoming white, thick at the disc. Spores ferru- 

 ginous, broadly elliptical, or subglobose, 6-9 x 6-7 /x,, apiculate at 

 the base, multi-guttulate, "punctate " Rick. Woods. Sept. Nov. 

 Uncommon, (v.v.) 



433. C. (Dermo.) violaceo-fuscus (Cke. & Massee) Massee. Cke. Illus. 



no. 1163, t. 1174, as Inocybe violaceo-fusca Cke. & Mass. 



Violaceus, violet ; fuscus, dark. 



P. 2-5-5 cm., umber, often tinged with violet, fleshy, more or less con- 

 vex, then expanded, obtusely umbonate, flocculose, fibrillose, con- 

 centrically scaly, dry; margin thin, torn, fimbriate. St. 5-6 cm. x 6- 

 8 mm., violet above, pallid below, equal, silky. Gills violet, then umber, 

 adnexed, rounded behind, or slightly sinuate, 4-6 mm. broad, scarcely 

 crowded, edge paler, serrulate. Flesh thin. Spores ferruginous, ellip- 

 tical, 7-8 x 4/z. Amongst grass in open places. Uncommon. 



***Gills bright cinnamon, red, or yellow. 



434. C. (Dermo.) phoeniceus (Bull.) Maire. (= Cortinarius miltinus 



Quel. non Fr.) Boud. Icon. t. 112, as Cortinarius miltinus Fr. 



s, purple-red. 

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