30 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



merits at the margin of the pileus. Subcaespitose. With 

 the habit of Hypholoma. 



Cortinarius (Hygr.) Reedii. Berk. 



Pileus about 1 in. across, conical then expanded and 

 strongly umbonate, often depressed round the nmbo, smooth, 

 shining, persistently brown, disc areolate, margin splitting ; 

 giJls attenuated behind, free, broad, ventricose, ascending, 

 -white or pallid then cinnamon ; stem about 1 in. long, 2 lines 

 thick, equal, rather bulbous, fibrilloso-striate, white, solid ; 

 veil tibrillose, evanescent ; spores 7-8 x 4 /A. 



Cortinarius (Hygrocyle) Reedii, Berk. Outl., p. 194; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 280; Cke., Illustr., pi. 843A. 



Amongst moss and beech mast. 



Cortinarius (Hydrocybe) leucopus. Bull. 



Pileus up to 1 in. across, flesh very thin except in the 

 centre, conical, then expanded, margin arched, obtusely 

 -umbonate, when dry silky, shining, yellowish clay-colour 

 with a suggestion of pink ; gills slightly adnexed, ventricose, 

 rather crowded, pale, then cinnamon; stem equal, white, 

 becoming hollow, 1^ long, 2 lines thick; spores 6 X 3-4 /z. 



Cortinarius (Hydrocybe) leucopus, Bull., Champ., t. 533, f. 2; 

 Oke., Illustr., t. 843s (pileus wrong colour). 



On the ground in woods. 



Small, with the habit of Cortinarius pluvius, but not viscid. 

 (Fries.) 



Cortinarius (Hygr.) scandens. Fr. 

 Pileus ^ in. across, submembranaceous, sometimes acutely 

 at other times obtusely umbonate, slightly fleshy, conical 

 when young, then expanded, glabrous, margin slightly 

 striate, when moist at first tawny-ferruginous then honey- 

 colour, tan-colour when dry, urnbo tawny, the intensity of 

 the colour varies with the weather ; gills adnate, thin, rather 

 distant, 12 lines broad, narrowest behind, tawny-cinnamon, 

 edge entire, same colour ; stem hollow, 3-4 in. long, 2 lines 

 thick, incrassated at the apex, base always attenuated, very 

 tkin, subulate, flexuous, soft, even, yellowish, but at first 

 sight, from the adpressed fibrils and dryness, shining white ; 

 veil thin, fibrillose, white ; spores elliptical, obliquely apicu- 

 late, 10 x 5 /t. 



