24 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



veil fugacious, white; spores elliptical, a little attenuated 

 towards one or both ends, 12-14 x 6-7 /x. 



Cortinarius (Hygrocybe) bicolor, Cke., Grevillea, xvi. p. 45 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 277 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 871, also pi. 820, f. u, 

 (as Cortinarius quadricolor^) 



On the ground in mixed woods. 



Flesh of stem bright and purplish-violet at the base, 

 pallid above. (Cooke.) 



*** Stem and imperfect veil yellow or rufous. 



Cortinarius (Hygr.) balaustinus. Fr. 



Pileus 1-2^ in. across, fleshy, convex then plane, obtuse, 

 moist, virgate with innate fibrils, glabrous, rufous-ferrugi- 

 nous, tawny brick-red and shining when dry ; gills adnate, 

 broad behind, rather crowded, ferruginous-rufous; stem 

 about 3 in. long, conically attenuated upwards, fibrillosely 

 striate, pallid, then tawny-ferruginous externally and in- 

 ternally, solid ; spores obliquely elliptical, 8 x 4-5 /JL. 



Cortinarius (Bygrocybe) balaustinus, Fries, Epicr., p. 307 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 277 ; Cke., Illustr., p". 794. 



In beech woods, &c. 



Size of Cort. subferruginous ; veil becoming rufous. Stem 

 often incurved. Gills quite entire, at first deep cinnamon. 



In beech woods. Entirely rufous or rufo-ferruginous, 

 larger and more robust than other species of the subgenus. 

 Stem stuffed, clavato-bulbous, attenuated upwards, firm, 

 2-3 in. long, ^ in. thick, often curved, fibrillose, pale and 

 streaked with "rufous when young, ferruginous outside and 

 inside when adult. Pileus rather fleshy, convex then ex- 

 panded, 3 in. broad, obtuse, almost glabrous, but under a 

 lens minutely fibrillose- virgate, moist when fresh (but not 

 viscid), reddish-ferruginous, reddish-tawny when dry, 

 shining, the thin margin expanded. Gills aduate, rather 

 crowded, broad, quite entire, at length rather distant, rufous, 

 (ferruginous-red), very broad behind. (Fries.) 



Cortinarius (Hygr.) colus. Fr. 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, rather fleshy, campanulate when 

 young, then convex, obtusely umbonate or altogether obtuse, 

 symmetrical, rufous -brown, when dry paler, brick-red, 



