166 CORTINABIUS 



fibrillose squamules. St. 2-59 cm. x 4-20 mm., tawny, equal, or 

 attenuated upwards, striato-fibrillose, or smooth. Cortina tawny, 

 fibrillose. Gills tawny, then rust colour, broadly adnato-sinuate, broad, 

 thick, distant, often veined on the sides. Flesh concolorous, reddening, 

 thin at the margin. Spores brownish ferruginous, broadly elliptical, 

 8-11 x 5-6 /i, 1-multi-guttulate, verrucose. Woods, and heaths. 

 Aug. Oct. Rare, (v.v.) 



443. C. (Denno.) malicorius Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 155, fig. 1. 



Malicorlum, the rind of a pomegranate. 



P. 3-6 cm., tawny, disc darker, golden, and floccose at the margin, 

 fleshy, convex, then plane, obtuse, velvety, or fibrillose. St. 4- 

 5 cm. x 12 mm., golden, at length fuscous, and olivaceous, covered with 

 golden fibrils. Cortina golden, fibrillose. Gills golden tawny, rounded 

 behind, adnexed, crowded, edge at length floccose and discoloured. 

 Flesh yellow, then greenish olive, rather thick, scissile. Spores "ellip- 

 tical, 8-9 x 4-5 /A, faintly punctate " Rick. Taste pleasant. Coniferous 

 woods. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



444. C. (Denno.) infucatus Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 155, fig. 2. 



Infucatus, painted. 



P. 2-5-4 cm., bright yellow, fleshy, convex, obtuse, silky when dry. 

 St. 4-7-5 cm. x 4-8 mm., pale light yellow, equally attenuated upwards 

 from the clavate base, fibrillose. Cortina yellow, fibrillose. Gills tawny, 

 then cinnamon, adnate, almost linear, 2 mm. broad, crowded, thin. 

 Flesh whitish. Spores "elliptical, 10 x 5 /A" Massee. Woods. Sept. 

 Oct. Rare. 



445. C. (Denno.) colymbadinus Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 155, fig. 3. 



K0\vfif3d<$, swimming. 



P. 5-8 cm., honey tan colour, becoming yellowish when dry, some- 

 what fleshy, convex, then expanded, scarcely umbonate, often repand, 

 covered with yellow, fugacious fibrils, then smooth, and shining. St. 

 5-10 cm. x 6-8 mm., pallid, equal, somewhat naked, fibrillosely- 

 striate, sometimes twisted. Cortina almost none, very fugacious. 

 Gills dark ferruginous, adnate, 4-8 mm. broad, subdistant, thick, edge 

 white-floccose. Flesh pallid, darker at the base of the st., scissile. Spores 

 "subglobose, 7-8 x 6-7 p,, almost spinose" Rick. Smell very strong 

 of radish. Pine, and beech woods. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



****01ivaceous, veil dingy pallid, or fuscous. 

 P. not torn into scales. 



446. C. (Denno.) cotoneus Fr. KOTIVOS, the wild olive. 

 P. 4-8 cm., olivaceous, fleshy, campanulate, then expanded, obtuse, 



somewhat repand, innately velvety, fragile when old. St. 5-9 x 1- 



