184 CORTINABITJS 



smooth, minutely innato-fibrillose and virgate under a lens, moist. 

 St. 7-10 cm. x 6-10 mm., pallid, becoming ferruginous or yellowish, 

 attenuated upwards, sometimes twisted, fibrillosely silky, base white. 

 Cortina white, fibrillose, evident. Gills pale reddish tan, then cinnamon, 

 adnate, scarcely crowded, 4-10 mm. broad, often veined at the base. 

 Flesh white, thin at the margin. Spores "ferruginous, subelliptical, 

 9-10 x 4-5/i, punctate " Rick. Pine, and deciduous woods. Sept. 

 Uncommon. 



503. C. (Hydro.) tortuosus Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 161, fig. 1. 



Tortuosus, twisted. 



P. 3-7-5 cm., ferruginous bay, somewhat shining, dull ochraceous 

 when dry, submembranaceous, campanulate, then expanded, acutely 

 or obtusely umbonate, convex, or revolute, smooth, moist. St. 7- 

 10 cm. x 6-8 mm., silvery, becoming pale, apex at first tinged with 

 fugacious lilac, fragile, equal, generally twisted, naked, rooting. Gills 

 shining tawny, then ferruginous, becoming blood red when rubbed, 

 adnate, separating, 4-8 mm. broad, somewhat crowded. Flesh pallid, 

 thin, fragile. Spores ferruginous, " subelliptical, 8-10 x 5-6 /A, spinu- 

 lose " Rick. Damp places in pine woods. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



504. C. (Hydro.) dilutus (Pers.) Fr. GreviUea, t. 85, fig. 2. 



Dilutus, diluted. 



P. 4-5 cm., bay brown, or watery brick colour, tan colour when dry, 

 opaque, fleshy, convex, then expanded, umbonate, umbo thin, 

 vanishing, silky and white at the margin, becoming smooth. St. 

 5-8 cm. x 4-8 mm., whitish, opaque, slightly attenuated from the 

 base, white-silky, becoming smooth. Cortina white, silky, often col- 

 lapsing into patches, or forming spurious zones on the st. Gills ochra- 

 ceous, then pale cinnamon, deeply emarginate, very ventricose, 6-8 mm. 

 broad, crowded. Flesh white, becoming reddish, thin at the margin. 

 Spores brownish, "subglobose, 5-6 x 5/z, punctate " Rick. Decidu- 

 ous woods. Nov. Rare. 



**St. and gills commonly inclining to violet. 



505. C. (Hydro.) saturninus Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 161, fig. 2. 



Saturninus, dull. 



P. 5-12 cm., dark bay-brown, somewhat umber when damp, soon 

 becoming pale brick colour, changing colour very much, fleshy, cam- 

 panulate, then expanded, obtuse, even, smooth, superficially white, 

 silky round the margin when young. St. 5-8 x 1-2-5 cm., deep violet, 

 becoming white, firm, thickened downwards, sometimes bulboso- ventri- 

 cose, fibrittosely striate. Cortina white, fibrillose, inferior, abundant. 

 Gills purplish, then watery ferruginous, rounded-adfixed, very broad, 

 8 mm., crowded, thin, fragile, edge often whitefloccose. Flesh violaceous, 



