CORTINARIUS 167 



1-5 cm., pale olivaceous, bulbous, somewhat fibrillose. Cortina yellow 

 olivaceous, persistent, woven into a fuscous zone towards the apex of 

 the st. Gills olivaceous, then cinnamon, adnate, separating, 4-6 mm. 

 broad, somewhat crowded. Flesh pale olivaceous, deeper coloured in 

 the st., thin, lax, soft. Spores ferruginous, subglobose, 8-9 x S/n, 

 granular. Taste mild. Woods, especially oak. Sept. Oct. Not un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



447. C. (Dermo.) subnotatus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 784, t. 832. 



Subnotatus, marked. 



P. 6-10 cm., olivaceous, becoming yellowish, then fuscous, fleshy, 

 conical, campanulate, then expanded, gibbous, at first covered with 

 hoary, silky fibrils, then smooth. St. 7-10 x 1-1-5 cm., pale olivaceous, 

 conical, equally attenuated upwards, often curved and flexuose, 

 fibrillose, or squamulose with the yellowish cortina, apex naked, 

 silvery-shining. Cortina yellowish, fibrillose, inconspicuous. Gills 

 bright ochraceous, then olivaceous cinnamon, adnate, 610 mm. broad, 

 subdistant, often connected by veins. Flesh yellowish, very thin at the 

 margin. Spores "elliptical, 6-8 x 5-6 p, granular" Massee. Smell 

 of radishes or none. Beech woods. Sept. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



448. C. (Dermo.) raphanoides (Pers.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 786, t. 833, 

 fig. A. pa(f)avi<;, a radish; etSo?, like. 



P. 2-5-5 cm., fuscous olivaceous, becoming tawny, fleshy, campanu- 

 late, then expanded, obtusely umbonate, often undulate, silky fibrillose, 

 then smooth. St. 5-8 x -5-1 cm., olivaceous, becoming pallid, equal, 

 or slightly attenuated upwards from the somewhat thickened base, 

 sometimes twisted, fibrillose. Cortina pallid olive, filamentous, often 

 forming a narrow ring-like zone on the st. Gills subolivaceous, then 

 cinnamon, and subferruginous, adnate, slightly ventricose, scarcely 

 crowded, edge often paler. Flesh pallid, or ochraceous, thick at the 

 disc, firm, then soft. Spores pale ferruginous, elliptical, 7-8 x 4-5/n, 

 granular. Smell strong of radish. Taste bitter. Beech, birch, and 

 fir woods. Sept. Oct. Common, (v.v.) 



449. C. (Dermo.) valgus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 785, t. 750. 



Valgus, bow-legged. 



P. 5-8 cm., yellowish fuscous, becoming paler, somewhat brick red 

 when dry, fleshy, fragile, convex, then expanded and subumbonate, 

 smooth; margin submembranaceous. St. 6-12 x 1-1-5 cm., pallid, 

 smooth, shining, attenuated upwards, often somewhat twisted, apex 

 lilac and substriate; base white-tomentose, bulbous, rooting. Gills 

 yellowish, then cinnamon, adnate, somewhat separating, 4-6 mm. 

 broad, subdistant. Flesh yellowish, thick at the disc. Spores pale 

 ferruginous, elliptical, 8 x 5/u,. Smell none, or of radish. Amongst 

 moss in coniferous woods. Oct. Uncommon. 



