CORT1NARIUS 57 



Amongst moss, fallen leaves, &c. 



Pileus splitting, 2-3 in. broad, resembling Cort. casteneus, 

 at first with erect, white ciri hose fibrils, becoming prostrate 

 and silky fibrillose, at length almost glabrous, sometimes 

 obtuse, sometimes acutely umbonate, also becoming umbili- 

 cate from the hollow apex of the stem. Stem remarkably 

 floccose, and a membranaceous ring not rarely present. 

 (Fries.) 



Cortinarius (Tela.) stemmatus. Fr. 



Pileus about 1 in. across, slightly fleshy, convex, then 

 expanded, obtuse, bay, hoary -silky towards the margin, pale 

 when dry, fibrillose ; gills adnate, crowded, bay, 1^ line 

 broad; stem about 3 in. long, 2-3 lines thick, floccoso- 

 squamulose with an indistinct ring, ferruginous-bay, imper- 

 fectly hollow. 



Cortinarius (Telemonia) stemmatus, Fries, Monogr., ii. p. 90; 

 Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 385 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 273 ; Cke., Illustr., 

 pi. 840A. 



In damp woods. 



Allied to Cortinarius uraceus, from which it differs in the 

 floccoso-squamulose stem. 



Cortinarius (Tela.) rigidus. Fr. 



Pileus ^-l? in. across, rather fleshy, conical or convexo- 

 expanded, acute or obtusely umbonate or quite obtuse, at 

 at length depressed round the umbo, glabrous, even, becoming 

 pellucidly striate at the margin, cinnamon-bay, yellowish or 

 fuscous-tan when dry, sometimes becoming broken up into 

 squamules when old ; flesh not cracking, colour of the pileus ; 

 gills adnate, more or less crowded, often connected by veins, 

 plane, entirely cinnamon-colour ; stem 2-4 in. long, 2 lines 

 thick, equal, short and straight, or elongated and flexuous, 

 brownish or the colour of the pileus, becoming pale, ad- 

 pressedly fibrillose, not floccose, stuffed, soon hollow. 



Cortinarius (Tela.) rigidus, Fries, Epicr., p. 302; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 273 ; Cke., lllustr., pi. 791. 



In damp woods, &c. Strong scented. 



Cortinarius (Tela.) paleaceus. Fr. 

 Pileus 3-1 in. across, bubmembranaceous, conical then ex- 

 panded, acute or obtusely umbonate, at first silky with white,, 



