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472. C. (Tela.) rubellus Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 806, t. 835. 



Rubellus, reddish. 



P. 5-7-5 cm., rufous orange, darker at the umbo, fleshy, campanulate, 

 then expanded. St. 7-10 x 1-1-5 cm., pale above, darker below, equal, 

 or attenuated upwards, marked with concentric, dark ferruginous, 

 fibrillose bands. Gills pale, then bright ferruginous red, adnate, sinuate, 

 rather narrow, scarcely crowded. Flesh reddish ochre, thick at the 

 disc. Spores ferruginous, pyriform, 8 x 5/x,, minutely rough. Swampy 

 places. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



****St. becoming fuscous, veil fuscous, or dirty, gills dark 

 coloured. 



473. C. (Tela.) bovinus Fr. (= Cortinarius brunneus (Pers.) Fr. sec Bar- 



bier.) Cke. Illus. no. 807, t. 822. Bovinus, pertaining to oxen. 

 P. 6-12 cm., watery cinnamon, becoming tawny when dry, convex, 

 then plane, obtuse, or gibbous, smooth, fragile, opaque, hygrophanous. 

 St. 6-8 x 2-2-5 cm., dingy pallid, becoming fuscous cinnamon, very 

 bulbous, veil forming a simple, interwoven fuscous zone, apex whitish. 

 Gills cinnamon, becoming dark, adnexed, very broad, 12 mm., distant. 

 Flesh pallid, watery, thick at the disc, spongy in the st. Spores pale 

 ferruginous, elliptical, 9-13 x 6-7 /A, coarsely verrucose. Pine, and 

 deciduous woods. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



474. C. (Tela.) nitrosus Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 808, t. 837. 



Nitrosus, full of natron. 



P. 5-7-5 cm., fawn colour, or tawny, disc darker and brownish, fleshy, 

 obtuse, convex, then expanded, margin undulate, soon breaking up 

 into minute, subconcentric darker scales. St. 5-8 x 1 cm., ochraceous, 

 base darker, subequal, marked below with concentric darker squamose 

 bands. Gills violet, then watery cinnamon, emarginate, rather broad, 

 subdistant. Flesh pale brown, thin. Spores pale ferruginous, ellip- 

 tical, 12 x 4jLt. Smell stinking, nitrous. Mixed woods. Sept. Oct. 

 Uncommon. 



475. C. (Tela.) brunneus (Pers.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 810, t. 854. 



Brunneus, brown. 



P. 5-10 cm., umber, dirty brick tan colour when dry, fleshy, cam- 

 panulate, then expanded, disc obtusely umbonate, smooth, innately 

 fibrillose towards the margin. St. 6-10 cm. x 8-12 mm., becoming 

 fuscous, clavate, or attenuated upwards from the thickened base, 

 elastic, covered with dense, minute white striae, veil dingy white, forming 

 a brownish white, ring-like zone. Gills dark purple cinnamon, then brown, 

 at length umber brown, adnate, then adnexed, 10-15 mm. broad, thick, 

 distant, often transversely veined, broadest in the middle. Flesh 

 pallid fuscous, thick only at the umbonate disc. Spores ferruginous, 



