164 CORTTNABIUS 



P. 2-5 cm., bay brown cinnamon, or dark cinnamon when moist, be- 

 coming bright bay when dry, fleshy, convex, then expanded, broadly 

 gibbous, or umbonate, flexuose, fibrillosely silky. St. 5-7 cm. x 4- 

 9 mm., pale, reddish fibrillose below, equal, or slightly thickened at 

 the base, rigid, striate. Cortina red, fibrillose. Gills reddish, then 

 ferruginous, adnate, 3-5 mm. broad, somewhat crowded, thin. Flesh 

 fuscous under the cuticle of the p., becoming paler, tinged reddish in 

 the St., thin. Spores ferruginous, elliptical, 6-8 x 4-5/i, multi-guttu- 

 late. Smell none, or of radish. Woods, especially birch. Sept. Nov. 

 Common, (v.v.) 



435. C. (Denno.) semisanguineus (Brig.) Maire. Eolland, Champ, t. 66, 

 no. 146. Semi, half; sanguineus, bloody. 



P. 3-6 cm., tan, or tawny olivaceous, becoming paler, convex, then 

 plane, silky. St. 3-6 cm. x 6-8 mm., paler tawny, or yellowish, equal, 

 often slightly thickened at the base. Cortina tawny, fibrillose. Gills 

 blood red, sinuato-adnate, broad, or narrow, crowded, thick. Flesh 

 fuscous, becoming pale, thin at the margin. Spores pale ferruginous, 

 elliptical, 6-7 x 3-4//.. Woods, and heaths under birches. Aug. 

 Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



436. C. (Denno.) cinnabarinus Fr. Boud. Icon. t. 113. 



Kivvdfiapi, dragon's blood. 



P. 2-7-5 cm., scarlet-red, fleshy, campanulate, then flattened, obtuse, 

 or obtusely umbonate, silky, then becoming smooth and shining. St. 

 3-6 cm. x 6-8 mm., concolorous, equal, sometimes bulbous, fibrillose, 

 or striate. Cortina cinnabar colour, fibrillose, lax. Gills concolorous, 

 dark blood colour when bruised, adnate, subdecurrent, subdistant, often 

 connected by veins; edge unequal and darker. Flesh concolorous, 

 then paler, firm. Spores ferruginous, almond-shaped, 10-13 x 5-6/x, 

 verrucose. Smell of radish. Woods, especially beech. Sept. Nov. 

 Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



437. C. (Denno.) sanguineus (Wulf.) Fr. Grevillea, t. 110, fig. 5. 



Sanguineus, bloody. 



P. 2-5-5 cm., dark blood colour, becoming paler when dry, fleshy, 

 convex, then plane, obtuse, or slightly umbonate, sometimes de- 

 pressed, shaggy, or squamulose. St. 5-10 cm. x 4r-6 mm., concolorous, 

 or darker, equal, or slightly attenuated downwards, flexuose, clothed 

 with concolorous fibrils, base sometimes white. Cortina blood red, 

 arachnoid, fugacious. Gills concolorous, then rust colour, adnate, 

 sinuate, crowded. Flesh reddish, paler, thin, pouring out a blood red 

 juice when pressed. Spores pale ferruginous, elliptical, 8-9 x 5-6 /M, 

 1-guttulate, verrucose. Smell of radish, sometimes obsolete. Woods, 

 especially of conifers. Sept. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



