180 CORTINARITJS 



umbonate, or wholly obtuse, often umbilicate in large specimens, 

 covered wholly, or only round the margin, with white, fibrillose, curled, 

 erect, superficial fiocci, then becoming smooth. St. 4-7 cm. x 4-8 mm., 

 concolorous, equal, firm, white fiocculose below the ring. Ring shining 

 white, median, woven, often membranaceous and reflexed. Gills clay 

 colour ("bluish clay" Quel.), then cinnamon, adnate, ventricose at the 

 base, rounded, 6 mm. broad, very crowded. Flesh concolorous, be- 

 coming paler, thick at the disc. Spores ochraceous, elliptical, 8-9 x 5- 

 6fji, punctate. Taste mild. Woods, heaths, and boggy ground, especi- 

 ally under birches. April Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



490. C. (Tela.) stemmatus Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 160, fig. 3. 



arefifia, a wreath. 



P. 2-5 cm., date brown, becoming pale when dry, fleshy, convex, then 

 flattened, obtuse, fragile, hoary silky round the margin when moist, 

 fibrillose when dry. St. 5-8 cm. x 4-8 mm., ferruginous date brown, 

 equal, or slightly attenuated at the base, often curved, soft, generally 

 floccosely squamulose with two to four white ring-like zones, sometimes 

 naked, apex paler, becoming silky even. Gills date brown, opaque, 

 narrow, 4 mm. broad, very crowded. Flesh ferruginous date brown, 

 thin at the margin. Spores ferruginous, pip-shaped, 9-10 x 5-6/z, 

 punctate. Moist woods, and heaths. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



491. C. (Tela.) rigidus (Scop.) Fr. Cke. Urns. no. 822, t. 791. 



Rigidus, stiff. 



P. 1-4 cm., bay cinnamon, fuscous when decaying, pale yellow, or 

 fuscous tan colour when dry, fleshy, conical, then convex, and expanded, 

 acutely or obtusely umbonate, or quite obtuse, at length depressed 

 round the umbo, smooth, becoming broken up into scales when fully 

 grown, margin at length pellucidly striate, at first silky from the white 

 veil. St. 5-10 cm. x 4-5 mm., concolorous, or becoming fuscous, or 

 pale, equal, straight, or flexuose, adpressedly fibrillose, girt with the 

 squamose, white veil. Ring white, floccose, sometimes membrana- 

 ceous. Gills cream colour, then cinnamon, adnate, broad, plane, some- 

 what crowded, often connected by veins. Flesh concolorous, thin at the 

 margin. Spores ferruginous, elliptical, 7-8 x 4-5/u,, minutely punc- 

 tate. Smell strong, taste mild. Woods, and heaths, especially under 

 birches. Sept. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



492. C. (Tela.) paleaceus (Weinm.) Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 160, fig. 4. 



Paleaceus, chaffy. 



P. 1-3 cm., fuscous, dingy when dry, very hygrophanous, sub- 

 membranaceous, conical, then expanded, acutely or obtusely umbo- 

 nate, silky with white, superficial squamuks, the remains of the veil, 

 becoming smooth, opaque. St. 5-7-5 cm. x 2-3 mm., concolorous, 



