186 COBTINABIUS 



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

 Cke. Illus. no. 836, t. 871. Bicolor, two coloured. 



P. 2-5 cm., dingy whitish, with an occasional tinge of lilac, fleshy, 

 campanulate, then expanded, broadly or acutely umbonate, some- 

 what fragile, smooth, silky shining. St. 5-8 cm. x 6-10 mm., pallid 

 violet, becoming whitish, equal, or attenuated downwards. Cortina 

 white, fugacious. Gills purplish violet, then cinnamon, adnate with a 

 tooth, subventricose, rather broad, scarcely crowded, slightly eroded 

 at the edge. Flesh colour of the pileus, or paler, bright purplish at the 

 base of the St., pallid above, thin. Spores ferruginous, elliptical, a little 

 attenuated towards one or both ends, 9-15 x 5-7 p., minutely verru- 

 cose. Woods. Aug. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



***St. and somewhat obsolete veil yellow or rufous. 



510. C. (Hydro.) balaustinus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 837, t. 794. 



/3a\avcmov, the flower of the wild pomegranate. 

 P. 3-8 cm., reddish ferruginous, tawny brick-red and shining when 

 dry, fleshy, convex, then plane, obtuse, moist, fibrillosely virgate 

 under a lens. St. 58 cm. x 10-12 mm., pale and streaked with red 

 when young, becoming ferruginous, often curved, clavately bulbous, or 

 attenuated upwards, firm. Cortina reddish. Gills reddish, then ferru- 

 ginous red, adnate, broad behind, somewhat crowded, at length sub- 

 distant. Flesh ferruginous in the st., thin. Spores ferruginous, "sub- 

 6-7 x 5-6/n, punctate " Kick. Beech woods. Oct. Un- 



511. C. (Hydro.) colus Fr. Paulet, t. 99. Colus, distaff. 

 P. 2-5-5 cm., brown rufescent, paler brick colour and shining when 



dry, fleshy, campanulate, then convex, obtuse, or obtusely umbonate. 

 St. 8-10 cm. x 4 mm., paler than the p., subbulbous, equally attenuated 

 upwards, base encircled with the blood red mycelium, sometimes rooting, 

 stiff, longitudinally fbrillose with fibrils of the same colour as the p. 

 Cortina tawny reddish, fibrillose, fugacious. Gills pale, then dark cinna- 

 mon, adnate, scarcely sinuate, 6 mm. broad, plane, firm, tough, rather 

 thick, scarcely crowded, veined at the base. Flesh concolorous, dingy 

 whitish when dry, thin. Spores ochrey-cinnamon, "dark under the 

 microscope, 9-10 x 5-6/*, almost spinulose, cystidia on edge of gill 

 vesiculose, 25-36 x 12-15ju, " Rick. Coniferous woods. Sept. Oct. 

 Uncommon. 



512. C. (Hydro.) isabellinus (Batsch) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 839, t. 829. 



Isabellinus, dirty linen colour. 



P. 3-5 cm., yellowish, honey colour, yellow and shining when dry, 

 fleshy, convex, subumbonate, smooth. St. 710 cm. x 8 mm., yellow- 

 ish, equal, very rigid, firm, striate. Cortina concolorous, sparse, very 



