40 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



hygrophanous, bay, bay -brown, or coppery -brown ; flesh 

 dingy, whitish when dry ; gills somewhat adnate, thick, dis- 

 tant, plane, fragile, very broad (3-6 lines), violet at first, 

 soon purplish-umber, finally dark cinnamon, edge quite entire, 

 at length veined at the base ; stem 3-5 in. long, i 1 in. thick, 

 short and bulbous when young, then elongated and sub- 

 equal, when perfect sheathed and peronate to the middle by 

 the adnate veil, above which the stem is nearly equal, pale 

 violet, villosely cortinate when young, then fibrillose ; 

 whitish below the white, spreading ring, tibrillose, in fullest 

 vigour floccosely scaly, base covered with white down, solid, 

 then spongy, usually bored and eaten by larvae ; spores, 10- 

 12 x 7-8 fL. 



Cortinarius (Telamonia) torcus, Tries, Epicr., p. 293; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 265; Cke., Illustr., pi. 801 ; Kalchbr., pi. 21, f. 1. 



In woods, especially beech. 



Showy, commonly robust, stem at first bulbous, then 

 elongated and equal; ring evident, subpersistent. Pileus 

 bay, and with a violet tinge at first. There is a form having 

 the gills rufous flesh-colour. (Fries.) 



Klotzch's specimens are evidently the genuine form, figured 

 by Bulliard; mine are slightly ditferent, but clearly belong- 

 ing to the same species. The youngest plants have no tinge 

 of violet ; but this is probably owing to their being found 

 in very dry weather. Pileus in the variety If in. broad, 

 obtuse, convex, at length plane, shining with a satiny lustre, 

 at length sometimes rimulose, whitish tinged with umber, 

 fleshy in the centre, the margin thin ; portions of the veil 

 persistent on the edge. Gills adnate, deep umber, distant, 

 sometimes very slightly emarginate in old specimens. Stem 

 2| in. high, | an in. thick, nearly equal or slightly attenuated 

 below, paler than the pileu?, hosed as it were, with the 

 white veil ; reddish within. Odour like that of A. fastibilis. 

 (Berk.) 



Cortinarius (Tela.) impennis. Fr. 

 Pileus 1^2 in. across, fleshy, convex, obtuse, rigid, almost 

 glabrous, colour almost brick-red, becoming pale; gills adnate, 

 then emarginate, distant, thick, 3-4 lines broad, violet, soon 

 purplish, at length watery cinnamon ; stem 2-3 in. long, 

 -3- in. thick at the apex, rather bulbous, pallid, the imperfect 



