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by the shining tawny gills becoming blood-red when bruised. 

 (Fries.) 



In the British specimens, collected at Scarborough, the 

 pilous also became blood-red or purplish when bruised. 



Cortinarius (Hygr.) dilutus. Fr. 



Pileus about 2 in. across, slightly fleshy, convex then 

 expanded, umbonate, umbo small, often disappearing, glabrous 

 when the veil is removed, bay-brown to pale brick -red when 

 moist, tan when dry, opaque in both conditions ; gills deeplv 

 emarginate, deeply ventricose, 3-4 lines broad, crowded, 

 pale cinnamon, not shining ; stem 23 in. long, 24 lines 

 thick, slightly attenuated from the base, not cartilaginous 

 and polished, white-silky, then becoming glabrous, opaque, 

 whitish, stuffed then hollow ; veil white, often remaining in 

 patches or forming a spurious zone on the stem, and remain- 

 ing as a white silky zone near the margin of the pileus ; 

 spores elliptical, 6 X 4 p.. 



Cortinarius (Hygrocybe) dilutus, Fries, Monogr., ii. p. 98 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 276 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 810. 



Agaricus dilutus, Bolton, t. 10. 



In woods. 



Inodorous. Every part soft and fragile, by which the 

 present species is known from the much more robust Cort. 

 armeniacus, with which it agrees in colour, for which reason 

 it was at one time mistaken for a thin form of that species. 

 (Fries.) 



** Stem and gills usually becoming violet. 



Cortinarius (Hygr.) saturninus. Fr. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, flesh thick at the disc, very thin 

 elsewhere, campanulate then expanded, glabrous, moist, 

 dark bay or brick-red, becoming discoloured, silky-white 

 at the margin from the fibrillose veil ; gills adnexed, thin, 

 crowded, purplish then watery ferruginous, about 2 lines 

 broad ; stem 2-3 in. long, 3-5 lines thick, almost equal, base 

 incrassated, even, deep violet then whitish, stuffed, v<.il 

 inferior, distinctly fibrillose, whitish. 



Cortinarius (Hygrocybe) saturninus, Fries, Epicr., p. 300 ; 

 ke., Hdbk., p. 27G ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 828. 



