26 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



readily distinguished, stem firm, stuffed, li-2 in. long, 3-4 

 lines thick, exactly equal, rather cartilaginous outside, 

 entirely breaking up under pressure into fibrils, coloured 

 like the pileus, yellowish-pallid then tawny. Veil loosely 

 fibrillose, fugacious, yellow. Pileus slightly fleshy, firm, 

 convexo-plane, obtuse or gibbous, 1-2 in. broad, very glabrous, 

 shining, tawny-ferruginous when moist, ochraceous when 

 dry; disc often becoming pale. Flesh thin, splitting, 

 paler. Gills adnate, but- also receding and becoming free, 

 rather crowded, entire, broad at first pale cinnamon then 

 tawny. Spores dusky ochraceous. Smell weak, not at all 

 like radishes. (Fries.) 



Cortinarius (Hygr.) angulosus. Fr. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, flesh thin, convex then plane, very 

 obtuse, wavy, margin incurved when young, flexuous, even 

 glabrous, reddish-tawny, variegated with darker spots, 

 hygrophanous, tawny-ochraceous when dry, not shining ; 

 flesh firm, not splitting, yellowish-white ; gills adnate, rather 

 thick, rather distant, 3 lines and more broad, fragile, tawny, 

 edge entire, same colour ; stem 1^-2 in. long, 3-4 lines thick, 

 equal, striate, tawny, twisted, stuffed then hollow ; veil very 

 fugacious, tawny. 



Cortinarius (Hygrocybe] anyiilosus, Fries, Epicr., p. 308 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., 379 ;' Cke., Illustr. Suppl., t. 1178. 



On the ground in fir woods. 



Far. gracilescens. Fries, Mon., i. p. 104. Stem hollow, 

 3 in. long, 2-3 lines thick, base almost attenuated, also tor- 

 tuous ; pileus rather fleshy. 



Amongst moss in pine woods. 



-**** gi em dusky, veil pallid, dingy, or white; gills dark. 



Cortinarius (Hygr.) uraceus. Fr. 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, slightly fleshy, conical then carn- 

 panulate, at length expanded, obtusely umbonate ; moist, 

 even, glabrous, umber or brown, sometimes with an olive 

 tinge, rather shining, when dry (brick-red when young) 

 commonly tan or dirty pale ochraceous, at length rather 

 fibrillose. Flesh brown, darker in the stem. Gills adnate, 

 ventricose, firm, 3 lines and more broad, distant, cinna- 



