170 CORTINARIUS 



at length depressed round the umbo, smooth. St. 5-12 cm. x 6- 

 8 mm., pale white, at length fragile, equal, often flexuose, base white 

 villous, clothed with shining, white, fugacious, fioccoso-plumose scales 

 below the ring, even above. Cortina white, forming a distant, mem- 

 branaceous ring. Gills watery cinnamon, adnate, very broad behind, 

 up to 12 mm., somewhat crowded. Flesh watery white, thin. Fir 

 woods, and Sphagnum swamps. Oct. Rare. 



var. robustior Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 792, t. 819. Robustior, firmer. 

 Differs from the type in being larger and stouter. Spores 10 x 6-7 /z. 

 Damp woods. Oct. Rare. 



457. C. (Tela.) microcyclus Fr. Cke. lUus. no. 793, t. 865. 



pi/epos, small; KVK\OS, a ring. 



P. 2-3 cm., brick-red fuscous, disc darker, becoming paler and opaque 

 when dry, almost membranaceous, plano-convex, minutely umbonate, 

 smooth. St. 2-5-5 cm. x 3-4 mm., pallid, then white, attenuated up- 

 wards from the subbulbous base. Cortina white, forming a ring-like 

 zone on the st. Gills lilac, then dark cinnamon, adnate, very broad, 

 almost ovate, distant, thin. Flesh thin. Spores "reddish brown in 

 the mass, elliptical, 5-7 x 4 /A " Herpell. Coniferous woods, and under 

 trees. Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 



**St. and gills violaceous. Cortina commonly white-violaceous, 

 universal veil white. Very distinguished. 



458. C. (Tela.) torvus Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 157, fig. 1. Torvus, wild. 

 P. 4-12 cm., brick colour, date brown, copper brown, fleshy, convex, 



then flattened, obtuse, sprinkled with hoary squamules and fibrils, at 

 length becoming smooth. St. 7-12 x 1-1-5 cm., whitish, becoming dis- 

 coloured, short and bulbous, then elongated and subequal, often curved, 

 sheathed to the middle, and forming a white, membranaceous, persistent 

 ring, fibrillose and floccosely scaly below the ring; apex pale violaceous, 

 silky; base white villous. Cortina white, villous, then fibrillose. Gills 

 violaceous, soon purplish umber, then dark cinnamon, subadnate, very 

 broad, 6-12 mm., thick, distant, fragile, at length sometimes veined 

 at the base. Flesh dingy, becoming whitish when dry, thick at the disc, 

 firm. Spores ferruginous, pip-shaped, 9-10 x 5-6/x, 1-guttulate, 

 "warted" Rick. Smell "of camphor" Maire. Woods, especially 

 beech. Aug. Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



459. C. (Tela.) impennis Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 157, fig. 2. 



In, not; penna, a feather. 



P. 5-10 cm., umber, then brick colour, decolouring and dingy, fleshy, 

 convex, very obtuse, smooth; margin silky when young, at length 

 cracked. St. 5-10 x 1-2-5 cm., pale, becoming violet at the apex, 





