190 CORTINARIUS 



menibranaceous veil. St. 7-12 cm. x 6 mm., whitish, equal, slightly 

 swollen at the base, naked. Veil white, menibranaceous, fugacious. Gills 

 ferruginous, edge yellowish, rounded behind, slightly adnexed, 6 mm. 

 broad. Flesh whitish, thin at the margin. Spores "ferruginous, ellip- 

 tical, 8 x 4-5/z " Massee. Amongst moss, often caespitose. Rare. 



524. C. (Hydro.) Reedir Berk. Hussey, Illus. Brit. Myc. n, t. 45. 



Miss F. Reed, sister of Mrs Hussey. 



P. 2-3 cm., persistently brown, fleshy, conical, then expanded, 

 strongly umbonate, smooth, shining, disc areolate; margin splitting. 

 St. 4-5 cm. x 4 mm., white, slightly bulbous, fibrillosely striate. Veil 

 fibrillose, evanescent. Gills white, or pallid, then cinnamon, ascending, 

 attenuated behind, free, ventricose broad. Flesh pallid, thin at the 

 margin. Spores "7-8 x 4/n" Massee. Amongst moss, and beech 

 mast. May. Rare. 



525. C. (Hydro.) leucopus (Bull.) Fr. Cke. lUus. no. 848, t. 843, fig. B. 



XevKOTrovs, white footed. 



P. 2-3 cm., very pale yellow, tan colour and shining when dry, fleshy, 

 conical, then expanded, umbonate, smooth, moist. St. 2-55 cm. x 4 

 8 mm., shining white, equal, or slightly attenuated upwards, soft. 

 Cortina white, median. Gills pallid, then cinnamon, adnexed, separating, 

 ventricose, crowded, thin. Flesh pallid, thin at the margin. Spores 

 ferruginous, elliptical, 8-9 x 5-6/x,, granular, "spiny " Rick. Woods. 

 Aug. Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



526. C. (Hydro.) scandens Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 163, fig. 1. 



Scandens, climbing. 



P. 1-3 cm., tawny ferruginous, then honey colour, tan colour when dry, 

 umbo becoming tawny, submembranaceous, conical, then campanulate, 

 acutely or obtusely umbonate, umbo sometimes obsolete; margin 

 slightly striate. St. 6-10 cm. x 4 mm., yellowish, shining whitish when 

 dry, thickened at the apex, attenuated at the white base, awl-shaped, 

 fiexuose, soft, fibrillosely silky, apex often mealy. Cortina white, su- 

 perior, thin, fibrillose. Gills yellowish, then tawny cinnamon, adnate, 

 narrow, 2-4 mm. broad, attenuated in front, thin, subdistant. Flesh 

 yellowish, thick at the umbo. Spores yellow, "elliptical, 6-7 x 4-5 /M, 

 minutely warted" Rick. Pine woods. Sept. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



**St. inclining to violet, or reddish. 



527. C. (Hydro.) erythrinus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 850, t. 798, fig. A. 



epv8po<f, red. 



P. 2-5-4 cm., bay brown rufous, tawny when dry, fleshy, conical, then 

 convex, regular, umbonate, the obtuse or obsolete umbo darker, smooth. 

 St. 4-8 cm. x 4-6 mm., shining silvery white, violaceous upwards, 

 equal, rarely thickened at the base, straight, or ascending, fibrillosely 



