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Tufted or subgregarious. Pileus 1-2 inches broad, purple- 

 brown, shining with a satiny lustre, umbonate, the umbo 

 generally subumbilicate ; flesh moderately thick in the 

 centre. Gills very broad, at length subferruginous, distant, 

 adnate for half their breadth. Stem 2^-4 inches high,. 

 in. thick, undulated, silky, much paler than the pileus,. 

 with a few slight traces of the veil. Sowerby's plant and 

 that of Fries seem to be the same ; but if so, the former is 

 not, as Fries supposes, merely the young state, but arrived at 

 its full growth. (Berk.) 



Cortinarius (Tela.) quadricolor. Fr. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, rather fleshy, thin, conical then 

 expanded, umbonate, glabrous, at length with depressed spots,, 

 pale yellow then tawny, shining when dry; flesh thin, 

 coloured like the pileus ; gills adnate, distant, 3-4 lines- 

 broad, but thin, margin white, serrate, dark violet or purplish 

 cinnamon ; stem 3 in. long, 23 lines thick, equal, flexuous, 

 rather rigid, fibrilloso-striate from the adpressed veil, which 

 above collapses and forms an oblique white ring that 

 eventually disappears, stuffed then hollow ; spores 10-11 X 

 6-7 /x. 



Cortinarim (Telamonia) quadricolor, Fries, Epicr., p. 295 ; 

 Cke. Hdbk., p. 266 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 867. 



In beech woods, &c. 



Agreeing with C. Mnnuleus in size, but differing in colour. 

 Gills sometimes violet. (Fries.) 



'* Stem and veil red or yellow. Gills tawny or cinnamon, not 

 violet nor becoming brown. 



Cortinarius (Tela.) helvolus. Fr. 



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

 or obtusely umbonate, glabrous, even, dark tawny-ferrugi- 

 nous, yellowish when dry, becoming cracked, the margin at 

 first covered with the veil, regularly incurved ; gills dis- 

 tinctly cmarginate, 4 lines broad, distant, thick, base rather 

 veined, opaque, tawny then tawny-cinnamon ; stem variable 

 in length, in the largest form 6-8 in. long and up to 1 in. 

 thick, in the medium form 3 in. long, 4 lines thick, in the 

 smallest form 2 in. long, attenuated at the base, apex 2-3 



