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paler when young, tough, equal, undulate, squamulose with white flocci, 

 base white-villose. Ring white, fibrillosely floccose, fugacious. Gills 

 pallid-whitish, then cinnamon, adnate, broad, crowded. Flesh con- 

 colorous, very thin at the margin. Spores ferruginous, broadly ellip- 

 tical, 7-8 x 4-5 /u,, rough. Smell weak. Woods, especially beech, and 

 birch, also on boggy heaths. Sept. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



493. C. (Tela.) penicillatus (Fr.) Quel. (= Cortinarius (Inoloma) peni- 

 cillatus Fr.) Penicillatus, pencilled. 



P. 2-4 cm., ferruginous fuscous, tawny when dry, fleshy, convex, 

 minutely umbonate, dry, densely fioccoso-scaly with dark, innate, ferru- 

 ginous fibrils. St. 5-7-5 cm. x 3-6 mm., paler than the p., equal, 

 fragile, squamose to the apical ring with adpressed, fuscous, ferruginous, 

 concentric scales, paler and adpressedly silky above the ring. Gills 

 ochraceous, then cinnamon, sinuato-adnate, then separating, plane, 

 6 mm. broad, somewhat crowded. Flesh concolorous, thin. Spores 

 pale ferruginous, pip-shaped, 7-8 x 5/i, minutely rough. Coniferous 

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



494. C. (Tela.) Iris Massee. tpis, the rainbow. 

 P. 2-3 cm., pale ochraceous brown, fleshy, hemispherical, then ex- 

 panded, acutely umbonate, silky, densely covered with minute white 

 fibrils, usually splitting at the margin. St. 5-7 cm. x 4 mm., orange 

 brown, conical, covered with concolorous, pointed, fibrillose squamules 

 below the bright brown, fibrillose ring, smooth, silky, and violet, becoming 

 pale above the ring. Gills dirty ochraceous, then bright orange brown, 

 very much cut out behind, slightly attached, moderately broad, 

 rather crowded. Flesh concolorous, thin. Spores orange brown, ellip- 

 tical, obliquely apiculate, 10 x 5/u,. Solitary or in clusters of two to 

 four. Woods. Oct. Rare. 



495. C. (Tela.) Cookei Quel. Cke. lUus. no. 821, t. 840, fig. B. 



M. C. Cooke, the eminent English mycologist. 

 P. 1-2 cm., tawny yellow, conical, umbonate, fibrillose, covered with 

 a paler, shining, woolly veil. St. 3-5 cm. x 2 mm., concolorous, equal, 

 flexuose, girt with several yellowish floccose zones. Gills violet, then 

 reddish, at length rust colour, adnate, 2-3 mm. broad, edge of ten floccose, 

 white. Flesh yellowish, thin. Spores ferruginous, elliptical, 7 x 3-5/Lt. 

 Damp woods. Rare. 



6. Hydrocybe Fr. 



(vSwp, water; KV^IJ, head.) 



Pileus thinly fleshy, rarely compact, moist, hygrophanous, smooth, 

 or covered only with white, superficial fibrils. Stem not sheathed, 

 cortina rarely forming an arachnoid ring. 



