CORTINABIUS 193 



534. C. (Hydro.) acutus (Pers.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 852, t. 845, fig. B. 



Acutus, pointed. 



P. 1-3 cm., honey colour to very pale yellow, somewhat shining, tan, 

 or white when dry, with a silky appearance, submembranaceous, conical, 

 then campanulate and expanded, acutely umbonate and concolorous, 

 at length depressed round the umbo, striate when moist', margin at 

 first obsoletely fibrillose, then smooth. St. 4-8 cm. x 2-4 mm., con- 

 colorous, equal, flexuose, white fibrillose, then smooth. Cortina white, 

 fibrillose, adhering to the margin of the p. Gills ochraceous cinnamon, 

 adnate, sometimes free, lanceolate, thin, crowded, becoming sub- 

 distant. Flesh concolorous, thin. Spores pale ferruginous, elliptical, 

 9-11 x 6jn, 1-guttulate. Woods and heaths. Aug. Nov. Common. 

 (v.v.) 



****St. inclining to fuscous. 



535. C. (Hydro.) Junghuhnii Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 853, t. 846, fig. A. 



Francis Junghuhn. 



P. 2-3 cm., shining cinnamon, tawny when dry, fleshy, convexo- 

 plane, umbonate with a papilla, striate to the middle when moist, some- 

 what velvety with thin, sparse, white, persistent fibrils under a lens. St. 

 5-8 cm. x 4-5 mm., pale brick colour, equal, or attenuated at the 

 whitish base, shining, adpressedly fuscous fibrillose. Cortina white, 

 inclining to fuscous, sparse. Gills saffron brick colour, adnate, ventri- 

 cose, 4 mm. broad, thin, veined at the base. Flesh of stem darker brick 

 colour, thick at the disc. Spores ferruginous, "elliptical, 7-8 x 6 /A, 

 verrucose " Rick. Woods amongst moss. Aug. Rare. 



536 C. (Hydro.) depressus Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 163, fig. 4. 



P. 5-8 cm., ferruginous fuscous, fuscous tan when dry, fleshy-mem- 

 branaceous, conico-convex, obtusely umbonate, at length almost plane 

 and depressed round the umbo, superficially silky at first; margin 

 striate when moist. St. 3-5 cm. x 4 mm., reddish, at length becoming 

 blackish, base becoming fuscous, equal, or attenuated downwards, 

 rigid, subcartilaginous, white silky, then smooth. Cortina scarcely 

 any. Gills saffron, becoming yellowish, then ferruginous, adnate, broad, 

 plane, thin, more or less crowded. Flesh concolorous, very thin. 

 Smell faint, of fish, or cucumber. Damp places in woods. Sept. Oct. 

 Uncommon. 



537. C. (Hydro.) milvinus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 853, t. 846, fig. B. 



Milvinus, pertaining to the kite. 



P. 1-3 cm., olivaceous fawn colour, hoary tan and opaque when dry, 

 membranaceous, conical, then convex, obtusely or obsoletely umbo- 

 nate, striate to the middle when full grown and beautifully wreathed 

 with white squamules at the margin, somewhat silky when dry. St. 

 B. B. B. 13 



