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then whitish, thin at the margin. Spores yellowish ferruginous, 

 "almond shaped, 10-12 x 5-6 /A, punctate" Rick. Often subcaespi- 

 tose. Woods, and pastures. Sept. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



506. C. (Hydro.) sciophyllus Fr. (= Cortinarius saturninus Fr. var. 

 sciophyllus (Fr.) Quel.) Fr. Icon. t. 161, fig. 3. 



<TKid, shade; <fjv\\ov, leaf. 



P. 2-5 cm., dark sky blue fuscous, or steel blue, fleshy, convex, then 

 expanded, obtuse, at first white silky round the margin from the 

 veil. St. 5-7 x 1 cm., violaceous, becoming ferruginous at the base, 

 attenuated upwards from the thickened base. Cortina white, very 

 abundant, collapsing and leaving many, Telamonia-like, white zones 

 on the st. Gills dark umber, adnate, narrow, 1-2 mm. broad, attenuated 

 from the st. to the margin, crowded. Flesh pale umber, thick at the 

 disc. Spores "ochraceous, elliptical, or subglobose, 8-9 x 6-8/1,, 

 granular " Bataille. Smell somewhat strong. Gregarious, or sub- 

 caespitose. Beech woods. Oct. Uncommon. 



507. C. (Hydro.) imbutus Fr. (= Cortinarius bicolor Cke. sec. Bataille.) 

 Cke. Illus. no. 834, t. 870. Imbutus, saturated. 



P. 510 cm., toast brown, then pale yellowish, fleshy, convex, obtuse, 

 smooth, obsoletely hoary-fibrillose towards the margin. St. 4-7 x 1- 

 2 cm., whitish, equal, sometimes twisted, scarcely fibrillose, apex pale 

 violaceous. Cortina white, appendiculate at the margin of the p. and 

 on the apex of the st., fugacious. Gills dark bluish grey, or violaceous 

 cinereous, then watery cinnamon, rounded, 6 mm. broad, with narrower 

 and shorter ones intermixed, subdistant. Flesh dingy, violaceous only at 

 the apex of the st., subequal. Spores ferruginous, elliptical, 7-8 x 5/z. 

 Woods. Sept. Uncommon. 



508. C. (Hydro.) castaneus (Bull.) Fr. Boud. Icon. t. 117. 



Kaaravov, the chestnut tree. 



P. 2-5 cm., fuscous chestnut, becoming pale and silky when dry, 

 shining, umbo becoming black, paler at the slightly scalloped margin, 

 and often white silky with the cortina, fleshy, firm, almost pliant, 

 campanulate, then flattened, obtuse, or obtusely umbonate, rarely 

 umbilicate, often irregular, smooth. St. 4-8 cm. x 4-6 mm., pallid 

 violaceous, or pallid rufescent, subequal, rarely thickened at the base 

 and rooting, cartilaginous, slightly fibrillose with the veil. Cortina 

 white, fibrillose, scanty. Gills violaceous, then ferruginous, adnate, or 

 emarginate, 4-6 mm. broad, thin, crowded, edge often whitish. Flesh 

 violaceous, darker under the cuticle of the p., thin. Spores ferruginous, 

 elliptical, 7-8 x 4-5/x,, minutely verrucose. Taste pleasant. Edible. 

 Gregarious, sometimes caespitose. Woods, pastures, and roadsides. 

 June Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



