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but not rigid, even, glabrous, ferruginous or watery cinnamon, 

 more or less hygrophanou- 8 , when dry tawny, shining, or 

 becoming pale ; flesh splitting, dingy, pale ochraceous ; gills 

 very emarginate, 3 lines broad, more or less crowded, at first 

 pale, soon water}-, then dingy ferruginous; stem in the 

 typical form solid, more or less bulbous, attenuated upwards; 

 adpre&sedly fibrillose, externally rigid, subcartilaginous, 

 pallid, soft within and dull orange at the base; amongst 

 heaps of rotten pine leaves, stout, very much inflated, spongy ; 

 size variable, usually 3 in. long, ^ in. thick ; veil entirely 

 fibrillose, marginal only, not peronate, very fugacious, spores 

 8-10 x 5-6 /i. 



Cortinarius (Hygrocybe) subferrugineus, Fries, Monogr., ii. 

 p. 93; Oke., Hdb'k., p. 274; Cke., Illustr., pi. 808. 



On the ground amongst leaves, &c., smell and taste 

 unpleasant. 



There are many forms distinct so far as colour is concerned, 

 but difficult to describe. Distinguished from C. armeniacus 

 in the opaque colour ; fleshy, obtuse pileus, the stem not 

 being elastic, and in the veil not collapsing. Differs from 

 C. bicelus in the simple veil, smooth hygrophanous pileus, 

 (watery ferruginous when moist, becoming ferruginous-tan, 

 when dry.) (Fries.) 



Cortinarius (Hygr.) armeniacus. Fr. 

 Pileus 2-4 in. across, rigid, rather fleshy, flesh-coloured 



ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE GENUS CORTINARIUS. 



Fig. 1, Cortinarius (Phlegmacium) purpurascens, Fr., entire fungus, 

 bowing the cobweb-like veil and the rnarginate bulb of the stem ; about 

 me-third nat. size ; Fig 2, sei-t'ou of same, showing the fleshy pileus ; 

 me-tliird nat. size; Fig. 3, Curtinarins(Myxacium)i<tillutitiut,Vr.; about 

 me-third nat. size ; Fig. 4, section of eame ; one-third nat. size ; Fig. 5, 

 'ortinarius (Hydrocybe) obtusu*. Fr. ; one-third nat. size ; Fig. 6, section 

 of same ; one-third nat. size ; Fig. 7, Cortinar.us(Inoloma) albo-violaceu*, 

 Fr. ; about one-third nat. size ; Fig. 8, section of same ; one-third nnt. 

 MZC; Fig. 9, Cortinarius (Telamonia), gentilis,Fr.; one-third nat. size; 

 Fig. 10, Cortinarius (Dermocybe) dtcumbens, Fr. ; one-third nat. size; 

 Fig. 11, section of same; one-third nat. size; Fig. HA, spores of same; 

 X -100; Fig. 12, basidium and spores of Cortinarius (Inoloma) albo- 

 riolaceus, Fr. ; x 400 ; Fig. 13, spor.s of Cortinarius (Hy<1rocylx)Mu8us r 

 Fr. ; X 400 ; Fig. 14, spores of Cortinarius (Phlegma<:iuin) purpurascens, 

 Fr. ; x 400. 



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