62 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



Called diabolicus "because it is intermediate in character 

 "between two sections. Pileus often unequal, cracked. In- 

 odorous. (Fries.) 



* Gills at first violet, becoming purple. 



Cortinarius (Dermo.) caninus. Fr. 



Pileus 3-4 in. across, equally fleshy, not thick, firm, not 

 cracking, convex then flattened, obtuse, hoary and silky at 

 first near the margin, glabrous when adult, colour variable, 

 fuscous or brown, in age generally rufous brick-red, tawny 

 when dry ; flesh white, becoming yellowish ; gills emar- 

 ginate, rather distant, thin, 3-4 lines broad, grey or purplish, 

 then cinnamon ; stem 3 in. and more long, | in. thick, in- 

 crassated at the base, somewhat bulbous, often whitish- 

 villose, pallid then white, apex violet, stufted and spongy 

 within, then hollow ; spores 8 x 5-6 p.. 



Cortinarius (Dermocybe) caninus, Fries, Monogr., ii. p. 60; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 258; Cke., Illustr., pi. 765. 



In woods. 



Allied to Cort. tdbularis, which differs in size, also to Cort. 

 anomalus ; the latter, however, differs in the peronate and 

 somewhat ringed stem, and the colour of the pileus fuscous 

 to rufescent. (Fries.) 



Cortinarius (Dermo.) myrtillinus. Fr. 



Pileus 23 in. across, thin, tough, gibbous then flattened, 

 smoke-colour, never becoming rufescent, densely silky hoary ; 

 flesh watery fuscous when moist, white when dry, violet at 

 the apex of the stem ; gills adnate, rather distant, clear 

 ainethyst-blue, scarcely changing colour, never purplish ; 

 stem 2 in. or more long, 34 lines thick, slightly bulbous, 

 externally tough, whitish, with a Avhite silkiness, stuffed ;. 

 veil scarcely evident; spores elliptical, 10 x 5 /x. 



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

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 258; Cke., Illustr., pi. 817. 



In beech woods, &c., near trunks. 



Colour and habit of Tricholoma nuda ; flesh at first watery 

 brown, then white, violet at the apex of the stem. Pileus 

 not rufescent, nor the gills with a purple shade ; veil not 

 peronate. (Fries.) 



