36 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



II. LEPTOrHYLLI. 



Gills narrow, thin, more or less crowded. Pileus thin. 

 Stem rigid outside, subcartilaginous, stuffed or hollow, often 

 attenuated downwards. 



* Stem whitish, pallid, not floccoso-scaly. 



** Stem becoming violet. 



*** Stem and pileus tawny or ferruginous. 



**** Stem floscoso-scaly, and with the pileus brownish. 



Subgen TELAMONIA. 



I. PLATYPHYLLI. 



Gills lroad i thicMsh. 



* Stem and veil white or whitish. 



Cortinarius (Tela.) macropus. Fr. 



Pileus about 3 in. across, flesh thin, greyish, convex then 

 flattened, obtuse, margin at first inflexed, dry, hoary with 

 minute squamules, then almost glabrous, brick-red at length 

 becoming ferruginous; gills adnexed, very broad (i 1 in.), 

 distant, sides not veined, sometimes crenate, at others quite 

 entire, pallid then watery cinnamon ; stem 3-6 in. long, 

 J-l in. thick, fibrillose, dingy white, then the colour of the 

 pileus, about equal, solid; veil distant, forming a narrow, 

 interwoven white ring; spores obliquely elliptical, finely 

 granu^ted, 8 x 5 (J- 



Cortinarius (Telamonia'} macropus, Fries, Monogr., ii. p. 71; 

 Cke., Hclbk., p. 263 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 788. 



In damp woods, &c. 



Cortinarius (Tela.) laniger. Fr. 



Pileus about 3 in. across, fleshy, disc compact, hemi- 

 spherical then expanded, obtuse, bright or dark tawny, 

 sometimes becoming pale, at first floccoso-squamose, flocci 



