CORTINARIUS 171 



I, scarcely bulbous, fibrillose, veil forming an incomplete 



white zone towards the apex. Cortina white, fibrillose. Gills intense 

 bright violaceous, somewhat purplish, soon becoming watery ferruginous, 

 adnate, then emarginate, distant, rather thick. Flesh pallid, thick, 

 becoming azure blue at the apex of the st. Spores ferruginous, 9-10 x 6/z, 

 punctate. Woods, especially pine, and among dead leaves. Sept. 

 Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. lucorum Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 1190, t. 1192, as a species. 



Lucus, a wood. 



Differs from the type in the unicolorous, clavato-bulbous stem, in the 

 gills only being tinged with a fugacious violet, and in the firm dark 

 watery flesh becoming isabelline when dry. Woods. Sept. Bare. 



460. C. (Tela.) plumiger Fr. Grevillea, t. 112, fig. 1. 



Plumiger, feather-bearing. 



P. 6-9 cm., fuscous, somewhat olivaceous when moist, brick tan when 

 dry, fleshy, conical, then campanulate, with a broad, obtuse, very pro- 

 minent umbo, then expanded, often cracked, dry, clothed with dense, 

 white, fioccoso-plumose scales, which are either erect and squarrose, or 

 adpressed and silky. St. 7-5-10 x 1 cm., pale, then often tinged with 

 citron yellow, very clavate, apex pubescent, floccosely scaly from the veil, 

 which forms a ring-like zone at the apex. Cortina white, floccose. Gills 

 violaceous, soon watery then pure cinnamon, adnate, scarcely crowded, 

 broad; edge lilac, or clay colour, often denticulate. Flesh white, or 

 lilac, then yellowish, thin, firm. Smell unpleasant, foetid. Spores ferru- 

 ginous, almond-shaped, 13-15 x 7-8/>i, minutely echinulate. Coni- 

 ferous, and mixed woods. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



461. C. (Tela.) scutulatus Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 158, fig. 2. 



Scutulatus, diamond- or lozenge-shaped. 



P. 2-5 cm., purple umber, or brick fuliginous, very hygrophanous, 

 brick colour when dry, fleshy, ovato-globose, then campanulato-hemi- 

 spherical, obtuse, sometimes umbonate, or umbilicate, white silky 

 round the margin, then naked, rivulose in the form of innate squamules, 

 sometimes lacunoso-wrinkled. St. 5-15 cm. x 4-12 mm., deep vio- 

 laceous, at length becoming fuscous, cylindrical, or bulbous at the 

 extreme base, white villous at the base, rigid, somewhat rooting, 

 fibrillosely striate, veil sheathing and forming a white, narrow, mem- 

 branaceous ring. Cortina white, floccose. Gills violaceous, then purple, 

 at length cinnamon, adnate, rarely emarginate, 6 mm. broad, more or 

 less distant, edge often white and serrate when young. Flesh violace- 

 ous, firm, thick at the disc. Spores ferruginous, pip-shaped, 7-8 x 4//,, 

 1-multi-guttulate, "slightly punctate" Rick. Smell "strong, of 

 radish, or of violets " Quel. Woods, and moist places. Aug. Oct. 

 Uncommon, (v.v.) 



