CORTINARIUS 187 



fugacious. Gills yellow, then day cinnamon, adnate, broad, thin, sub- 

 distant, edge often yellowish. Flesh cream colour, firm. Spores "ellip- 

 tical, 7-9 x 4-5/A, rough " Bataille. Coniferous woods. Sept. Oct. 

 Uncommon. 



513. C. (Hydro.) renidens Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 162, fig. 1. 



Renidens, glistening. 



P. 2-5 cm., ferruginous tawny, ochraceous when dry, or only becoming 

 pale at the disc, fleshy, firm, convexo-plane, obtuse, or gibbous, rarely 

 umbilicate, very smooth, shining. St. 4-8 cm. x 6-8 mm., pale 

 yellowish, then tawny, firm, equal, subcartilaginous, splitting up into 

 fibrils of the same colour as the p. Cortina yellow, laxly fibrillose, 

 fugacious. Gills pallid cinnamon, then tawny, adnate, separating free, 

 6 mm. broad, somewhat crowded. Flesh paler, thin, scissile. Spores 

 dark ochraceous, "subglobose, 6-7 x 6/A, minutely warted " Rick. 

 Smell weak. Deciduous woods. Sept. Uncommon. 



514. C. (Hydro.) angulosus Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 162, fig. 2. 



Angulosus, full of corners. 



P. 48 cm., reddish tawny, somewhat variegated with darker spots, 

 opaque tawny yellow when dry, fleshy, convex, then plane, very obtuse, 

 repand, hygrophanous, fragile, very smooth ; margin membranaceous, 

 splitting, flexuose. St. 3-7 cm. x 4-8 mm., somewhat tawny, firm, 

 equal, often twisted, striate. Cortina tawny, very fugacious. Gills 

 tawny, adnate, 6-8 mm. broad, thick, subdistant, fragile. Flesh yellow- 

 ish white, darker in the St., thin, firm. Spores ferruginous, "roundish- 

 elliptical, 7-8 x 5-6/4, minutely warted " Rick. Coniferous woods. 

 Aug. Sept. Uncommon. 



var. gracilescens Fr. Gracilescens, becoming slender. 



Differs from the type in the st. being attenuated at the base. Pine 

 woods. 



****St. inclining to fuscous ; cortina pallid, dirty, or white, 

 not yellow, gills dark. 



515. C. (Hydro.) uraceus Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 162, fig. 3. Uro, I burn. 

 P. 25 cm., umber, or brown, sometimes olivaceous, somewhat shining, 



becoming brick colour when young, commonly tan or isabelline when dry, 

 fleshy, conical, then campanulate and expanded, umbonate, or ob- 

 tuse, smooth often becoming subfibrillose. St. 5-10 cm. x 4-8 mm., 

 fuscous, sometimes olivaceous, apex becoming pale, at length becoming 

 entirely fuscous black, cylindrical, quite equal, firm, fibrillosely striate 

 with paler striae, becoming smooth, apex naked. Cortina fuscous, 

 superior, fibrillose, rarely noticeable. Gills cinnamon brown, adnate, 

 ventricose, 6mm. broad, distant, firm; edge sometimes white and 



