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462. C. (Tela.) evernius Fr. Luc. Champ, t. 191. 



ev-epvrjs, flourishing. 



P. 3-10 cm., purple bay brown, brick colour when dry, becoming 

 isabelline-hoary when old, very hygrophanous, fleshy, conico-campanu- 

 late, then flattened, obsoletely umbonate, adpressedly silky, then 

 smooth, at length rimosely incised, and torn into fibrils, fragile. St. 

 7-15 x 1-1-5 cm., violaceous, becoming pale, equal, or attenuated down- 

 wards, substriate, squamulose and obsoletely zoned with the white veil. 

 Cortina white, fibrillose. Gills violaceous purple, becoming pale, then 

 cinnamon, adnate, ventricose, very broad, 8-20 mm., distant. Flesh 

 concolorous in the p., violaceous in the St., very thin at the margin. 

 Spores ferruginous, elliptical, 7-8 x 5-6 (JL, 1-2-guttulate, "faintly 

 warted " Eick. Smell like mushrooms. Deciduous, and pine woods, 

 and damp places. Sept. Dec. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



463. C. (Tela.) quadricolor (Scop.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 799, t. 867. 



Quadricolor, four coloured. 



P. 4-7-5 cm., pallid yellow, then somewhat tawny, shining when dry, 

 fleshy, conical, then flattened, umbonate, smooth, at length spotted ; 

 margin radiato-striate. St. 5-7-5 cm. x 4-6 mm., violaceous, becoming 

 whitish, equal, flexuose, subrigid, fibrilloso-striate with the adpressed 

 veil, which forms an oblique, fugacious, white ring. Cortina white, 

 fibrillose. Gills dark violaceous, or purplish, then cinnamon, adnate, 

 6-8 mm. broad, distant, white- serrated at the edge. Flesh yellowish, 

 thin. Spores ferruginous, broadly elliptical, 7-8 x 5/t, multi-guttu- 

 late, "nearly spinulose " Rick. Woods, especially beech. Sept. Oct. 

 Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



***St. and veil reddish or yellow. Gills tawny, or cinnamon, 

 never violaceous, nor becoming brown. 



464. C. (Tela.) armillatus Fr. (= Cortinarius haematochelis (Bull.) Fr.) 

 Fr. Icon. t. 158, fig. 1. Armillatus, having a bracelet. 



P. 4-12 cm., red- or fuscous-brick colour, fleshy, cylindrical, then 

 campanulate, at length flattened, often gibbous, smooth, then innately 

 fibrillose, or squamulose; margin at first incurved. St. 6-15 x 1-2 cm., 

 white, becoming brownish with age, equal, base bulbous, the red veil 

 forming one to four distant, oblique cinnabar zones, striate when old, 

 and reddish fibrillose at the base. Cortina reddish white, fibrillose. 

 Gills pallid cinnamon, then dark ferruginous, almost bay brown, adnate, 

 slightly rounded, very broad, 10-15 mm., distant. Flesh dingy pallid, 

 isabelline in the St., thin at the margin. Spores pale ferruginous, 

 elliptical, 9-10 x 5-6/x, multi-guttulate, minutely verrucose. Smell 

 of radish, or none. Woods, and heaths. Aug. Oct. Common. 

 (v.v.) 



