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right bay, becoming torn towards the silky margin ; gill& 

 adnate, 2-3 lines broad, rather distant, tawny-cinnamon - r 

 stem 3-5 in. long, slender, very fragile, pale red, rather 

 shining, with red squamnles, hollow. 



Cortinarius (Telamonia) paragandis, var. praestigiosus, Fries,. 

 Epicr., p. 295 ; Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 379. 



Under pines, &c. The typical form has not been found in 

 this country. 



Cortinarius (Tela.) croceo-fulvus. Fr. 



Pileus 2-4 in. across, fleshy, convex then expanded, 

 obtusely umbonate or gibbous, even, bright tawny-orange ; 

 jiills adnate, slightly sinuate, 3 lines broad or more, rather 

 distant, ferruginous ; stem 3-4 in. long, ^- in. thick, equal, 

 yellow with a tinge of rufous, zoned with a rufous-orange 

 line, the remains of the veil, solid, flesh like that of the 

 pileus, bright yellow; spores obliquely elliptical, granular, 

 8-10 X 6 p.. 



Cortenarius (Telamonia) croceo-fulvus, Fries, Epicr., p. 296 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 379 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 1193. 



Agaricus croceo-fulvus, D. C., Fl. Fr., v. p. 49. 



In woods. 



Readily known by the bright tawny-orange pileus, and 1 

 the clear yellow colour of the flesh. 



Cortinarius (Tela.) limonius. Fr. 



Pileus 2-4 in. across, truly fleshy, convexo-plane, obtuse, 

 even and glabrous when moist, cracked and incised when- 

 dry ; tawny-citron, yellowish-ochre and opaque when dry ; 

 flesh coloured like the pileus, not splitting; gills adnate, 

 rarely emarginate, distant, for a long time yellow, at length 

 tawny-cinnamon ; stem 3 in. long, | in. thick, equal or 

 attenuated at the base, where it becomes deep saffron, floc- 

 cosely squamulose from the veil, apex sometimes with a 

 coloured flocsose veil, solid. 



Cortinarius (Tela.) limonius, Fries, Monogr., ii. p. 80 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 267"; Cke., Illustr., pi. 804A. 



In pine woods. 



Smell none. Base ef stem at length saffron-colour, some- 

 times attenuated, at others slighty incrassated. Eing often 

 floccose and radiating, but from the squamules on the stem, 



