CORTINARIUS. 61 



Larger than C. anomalus, paler, more glabrous ; gills at 

 first whitish or with a transient shade of grey, sometimes 

 becoming somewhat ferruginous. (Fries.) 



Cortinarius (Dermo.) camurus. Fr. 



Pilous 2-3 in. across, very unequally fleshy, disc rather 

 thick, but from the middle almost membranaceous, the broad, 

 obtuse umbo often oblique, cracked when dry, pale hoary- 

 brown, not hygrophanous but becoming pale yellowish, the 

 umbo darkest ; flesh white ; gills variously attached owing 

 to the oblique pileus, sometimes broadly adnate on one side, 

 sometimes almost free, crowded, about 3 lines broad, thin, 

 greyish-tan, then watery cinnamon or brownish, edge quite 

 entire, similarly coloured; stem imperfectly hollow, equal, 

 3 in. long, 4 lines thick, always ascending or twisted, even, 

 glabrous or fibrillose below, white outside and inside, apex 

 naked and silvery-shining ; spores 8-9 X 6-7 /*. 



Cortinarius (Dermocybe) camurus, Fries, Epicr., p. 285 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 257 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 784. 



In woods. 



Caespitose, very fragile, stem 3 in. long, 3-4 lines thick, 

 twisted or ascending, longitudinally adpressedly fibrillose 

 downwards. Pileus unequally fleshy, margin somewhat 

 membranaceous, soon glabrous, but not hygrophanous, 

 23 in. broad, often cracking, at length yellowish, disc 

 darkest, flesh white. Gills 2-3 lines broad, edge coloured 

 like the rest, quite entire, never grey, (Fries.) 



Cortinarius (Dermo.) diabolicus. Fr. 



Pileus 1 in. and more across, thin, hemispherical, obtuse 

 then gibbous, dry, fragile, cracking, at first brownish with a 

 grey bloom, then glabrous and yellowish-brown ; gills adnate, 

 separating and then appearing somewhat emarginate, rather 

 crowded, 2-3 in. broad, firm, very pale grey, soon whitish, 

 at length tan-colour ; stem 3 in. long, commonly thin, about 

 2 lines, but sometimes up to 5 lines thick, attenuated towards 

 the base, glabrous, pale, apex grey; veil fugacious; spores 

 -elliptical, 10-12 x 7 p.. 



Cortinarius (Dermocybe) diabolicus, Fries, Epicr., p. 285; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 258; Cke., Illustr., pi. 816 B. 



In beech woods, &c. 



