182 CORTINARIUS 



I. P. somewhat fleshy, convex, or campanulato-convex, then ex- 

 panded, obtuse, or at length gibbous; margin at first incurved. 

 St. for the most part attenuated upwards. 



*St. white, cortina of the same colour. 



496. C. (Hydro.) firmus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 824, t. 792. Firmus, firm. 



P. 4-8 cm., tawny ockraceous, fleshy, convex, then plane, obtuse, 

 firm, smooth, shining, dry. St. 6-8 x 1-1-5 cm., shining white, firm, 

 somewhat elastic, base clavate, subbulbous, rarely equal, fibrillosely 

 striate. Cortina white, fibrillose, sparse, fugacious. Gills almost con- 

 colorous, emarginate, crowded, fairly broad, thin. Flesh white, thick, 

 compact. Spores ferruginous, "tear-drop shaped, 9/z, minutely echinu- 

 late " Quel. Smell of horse-radish. Woods, and grassy places. Sept. 

 Oct. Uncommon. 



497. C. (Hydro.) subferrugineus (Batsch) Fr. 



Sub, somewhat ; ferrugineus, rust-colour. 



P. 4-8 cm., ferruginous, or watery cinnamon, either tawny and 

 shining when dry, or becoming pale, more or less hygrophanous, fleshy, 

 convex, then expanded, obtuse, flexuose, firm. St. 6-8 x 1-1-5 cm., 

 pallid, more or less bulbous, attenuated upwards, adpressedly fibril- 

 lose, rigid, subcartilaginous. Cortina white, fibrillose, marginal, very 

 fugacious. Gills pallid, soon watery, then dark ferruginous, opaque, 

 very emarginate, often connected by veins, 6 mm. broad, more or less 

 crowded. Flesh dingy isabelline white, saffron yellow at the base of the 

 St., scissile, thick at the disc. Spores ferruginous, elliptical, 7-8 x 4- 

 5 ft, 1-guttulate, "warted" Rick. Smell strong, taste unpleasant. 

 Deciduous woods, and amongst rotting pine leaves. Sept. Oct. Not 

 uncommon, (v.v.) 



498. C. (Hydro.) armeniacus (Schaeff.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 826, t. 793. 



Armeniacum, the apricot. 



P. 5-12 cm., tawny cinnamon, ochraceous when dry, fleshy, rigid, 

 campanulate, then convex and flattened, broadly and obtusely umbo- 

 nate, smooth, here and there slightly striate at the margin. St. 

 5-8 x 1-1-5 cm., white, conico-attenuated, fibrillose, subcartilaginous, 

 rigid, elastic. Cortina white, somewhat sheathing, collapsing and form- 

 ing an adpressed, silky zone. Gills pallid, then tawny cinnamon, 

 shining, adnate, at length slightly rounded, rather broad, crowded. 

 Flesh somewhat concolorous, thin at the margin, scissile. Spores ferru- 

 ginous, elliptical, 7-9 x 4-5/A, granular. Woods, especially pine. 

 Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. falsarius Fr. Falsarius, deceptive. 



Differs from the type in the light yellowish p. becoming white when dry. 



