CORTINABIUS 189 



II. P. submembranaceous, conical, then expanded, umbonate, umbo 

 acute, or more rarely obtuse and vanishing; margin at first straight. 

 St. subequal, or attenuated at the base. 

 *St. white. 



520. C. (Hydro.) dolabratus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 845, t. 811. 



Dolabra, a pick-axe. 



P. 5-10 cm., brick-red, tan colour when dry, fleshy-membranaceous, 

 fragile, campanulate, then convex and expanded, smooth, superficially 

 silky near the margin. St. 10-15 x 1-2 cm., shining white, quite equal, 

 cylindrical, often curved, smooth. Cortina very fugacious. Gills 

 tawny cinnamon, entirely adnate, with a decurrent tooth, widest behind, 

 10-25 mm., very broad, somewhat thick, distant. Flesh whitish, thin 

 at the margin. Spores ochraceous, broadly elliptical, 9-10 x ?//,. 

 Smell strong, stinking. Coniferous woods, and amongst Vaccinium. 

 Sept. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



521. C. (Hydro.) rigens (Pers.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 846, t. 812. 



Rigens, rigid. 



P. 2-5-6 cm., opaque tan clay colour, whitish tan when dry, fleshy, 

 campanulate, lax, then convex, obtuse, or broadly gibbous, smooth, 

 firm. St. 5-10 cm. x 4-10 mm., pale, white whendry, equal, sometimes 

 thickened upwards, sometimes downwards, sometimes fusiform, root- 

 ing, tough, elastic, rigid, cortex very cartilaginous, naked, smooth. 

 Cortina scarcely evident. Gills watery clay colour, then pallid, cinna- 

 mon, adnate, subdecurrent, very broad, 6-10 mm., distant, often veined 

 on the sides. Flesh white, thick, somewhat firm. Spores ferruginous, 

 pruniform, 7-5-9 x 5-5-5/x,, granular. Smell strong, like iodoform, or 

 balsam. Taste mild, then unpleasant. Woods, especially coniferous 

 woods. June Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



522. C. (Hydro.) fulvescens Fr. GreviUea, t. 116, fig. 2. 



Fulvescens, becoming tawny. 



P. 23 cm., cinnamon, brick-red when dry, prominent umbo darker, 

 submembranaceous, conical, soon convexo-plane, often acutely umbo- 

 nate, shining, at length fibrillose ; margin cortinate, at length striate. 

 St. 6-8 cm. x 3-6 mm., becoming pale, equal, or slightly attenuated 

 upwards, soft, flexuose, smooth. Cortina concolorous, distinct. Gills 

 tawny cinnamon, adnate, plane, subdistant, thin. Flesh white, thin. 

 Spores ferruginous, "almond shaped, minutely echinulate, 12//. " 

 Quel. Pine woods. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



523. C. (Hydro.) Krombholzii Fr. (= Cortinarius leucopus (Bull.) Fr. 

 sec. Quel.) Cke. lUus. no. 847, t. 813. J. V. Krombholz. 



P. 2-5-5 cm., pale yellowish tan, disc darker, fleshy, conico-cam- 

 panulate, then gibbous, smooth; margin appendiculate with the 



