CORTINARIUS 183 



499. C. (Hydro.) damascenus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 827, t. 856. 



Damascenus, a damson. 



P. 5-8 cm., bay cinnamon, disc often darker, becoming brick-red when 

 dry, firm, convex, then plane, globose, obtuse, or very obtusely 

 umbonate, smooth, generally rivulosely squamulose when dry. St. 

 6-8 x 1-1-5 cm., white, quite cylindrical, equal, firm, elastic, fibrillose. 

 Cortina white, fibrillose, fugacious. Gills pallid, then pale cinnamon, 

 adnate, narrower in front, thin, subdistant, opaque. Flesh white, 

 firm, thin at the margin. Spores ferruginous, elliptical, 12 x 6/A. 

 Taste acrid. Subcaespitose. Grassy places in woods, and pastures. 

 Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 



500. C. (Hydro.) privignus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 828, t. 827. 



Privignus, a step-son. 



P. 4-6 cm.., fuscous, becoming hoary-pale with a very thin white film, 

 pallid tan when dry, very fragile', fleshy, convex, then flattened, often 

 reflexed and undulate, obtusely umbonate, dry, very hygrophanous. 

 St. 5-8 cm. x 6-8 mm., silvery-pale, equal, or attenuated upwards, 

 often twisted, white-silky. Cortina white, silky. Gills watery, then 

 opaque cinnamon, adnate, broad, not crowded, edge white-fimbriate, 

 serrate. Flesh white, hygrophanous, thin at the margin, fragile. Spores 

 pale ferruginous, pip-shaped, 8-9 x 4-5ju, punctate, 1-guttulate. 

 Smell unpleasant. Taste scarcely acrid. Pine, and oak woods. Sept. 

 Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



501. C. (Hydro.) duracinus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 829, t. 809. 



Duracinus, hard-berried. 



P. 47 cm., watery brick colour, tan when dry, always opaque, fleshy, 

 campanulate, or convex, then plane, gibbous, or with a broad, obtuse 

 umbo, with an elevated ridge at the circumference, caused by the margin 

 being at first sharply and regularly bent inwards to the breadth of 

 1 mm. and white-silky, then becoming flattened and naked; cuticle 

 hard, rigid, fragile. St. 5-8 x 1-1 -5 cm., pale white, hard, fusiform, 

 or subbulbous, rooting at the attenuated base, smooth, rigid, with a thick, 

 cartilaginous, rigid, separable cuticle (the fragments of which when it 

 breaks up become revolute). Cortina white, appearing only as a nar- 

 row zone round the margin of the p. Gills whitish, then watery cinna- 

 mon, adnate, 4-6 mm. broad, moderately crowded; edge often white, 

 irregular. Flesh white, then tinged reddish, thick at the disc. Spores 

 ferruginous, " elliptical- almond-shaped, 10-11x5-6/4, punctate" 

 Rick. Woods, and pastures. Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



502. C. (Hydro.) ffluminus Fr. Cke. lUus. no. 830, t. 841. 



Illuminus, dull. 



P. 48 cm., pale brick-red, or tawny cinnamon, brick-red tan when dry, 

 somewhat fleshy, convex, then plane, gibbous, or obtusely umbonate 



