168 CORTINARIUS 



450. C. (Dermo.) venetus Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 155, fig. 4. 



Venetus, sea-coloured. 



P. 4-5 cm., green, then greenish yellow, yellowish when dry, fleshy, 

 hemispherical, obtusely umbonate, covered with a persistent, erect, 

 yellow, velvety tomentum. St. 5-8 cm. x 6-8 mm., concolorous, or paler, 

 equal, often curved, firm, very fibrillosely silky, base often yellow and 

 villous. Cortina green, or citron yellow, fibrillose. Gills olivaceous, 

 darker than the p., then brownish, adnate, very broad, in the form of a 

 segment, often connected by veins, subdistant. Flesh pale yellowish; or 

 greenish yellow, thick at the disc, soft. Spores "olivaceous, elliptical, 

 10/1, echinulate " Bataille, "subglobose, 7-8 x 6-7 /x, roughish" 

 Rick. Smell of radish. Taste acrid. Beech, and fir woods. Aug. 

 Oct. Rare. 



5. Telamonia Fr. 

 (re\afjicav, a broad linen bandage.) 



Pileus thinly fleshy, or abruptly thin at the margin, moist, hygro- 

 phanous, smooth or sprinkled with superficial whitish fibres of the 

 veil. Stem cortinate, and annulate, hence the veil is somewhat double. 



I. Gills very broad, rather thick, more or less distant. 



St. spongy, and wholly fibrous. 

 *St. and cortina white, or whitish. 



451. C. (Tela.) macropus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 787, t. 788. 



fjt,aicp6s, long; TTOV<?, a foot. 



P. 5-9 cm., brick colour, at length becoming ferruginous, paler at the 

 margin, which is at first incurved, fleshy, convex, then flattened, 

 obtuse, dry, hoary with very small squamules, becoming smooth. St. 

 7-5-15 x 1-2-5 cm., dingy whitish, then concolorous, subequal, fibrillose. 

 Cortina white, forming a distant, inferior, narrow woven ring. Gills 

 pallid, then watery cinnamon, adnexed, very broad, 1-2-5 cm., distant, 

 edge sometimes crenate. Flesh whitish, then cinereous, thin at the 

 margin, firm, then soft. Spores pale ferruginous, elliptical, 9-10 x 5 /M, 

 minutely punctate. Woods. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



452. C. (Tela.) laniger Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 156, fig. 2. 



Laniger, wool bearing. 



P. 5-9 cm., bright or dark tawny, sometimes becoming pale, fleshy, 

 hemispherical, then expanded, obtuse, at first floccosely squamulose 

 with whitish fiocci, then becoming smooth, silky towards the margin. 

 St. 510 x 24 cm., white, equal, or bulbous, sometimes ventricose, 

 more or less distinctly sheathed by the veil. Cortina white, forming a very 

 soft, shining white, distinct ring, very delicate above. Gills bright 

 saffron cinnamon, then shining tawny, adnate, or sinuate, at first 

 crowded, then subdistant, sometimes transversely veined. Flesh 



