CORTINARIUS. 63 



Cortinarius (Dermo.) azureus. Fr. 



Pileus li-3 in. across, fleshy, convex then plane, obtuse, 

 with a silky sheen, atomate, lilac, hoary ; gills very slightly 

 emarginate then decurrent, rather crowded, bright bluish- 

 violet, 2-3 lines broad ; stem 2-3 in. long, base incrassated, 

 | | in. thick, glabrous, slightly striate, villose, sky-blue, 

 becoming whitish, stuffed; spores broadly pip-shaped, 

 granular, 9 X 6 p.. 



Cortinarius (Dermocybe) azureus, Fries, Epicr., p. 286 ; 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 766. 



Amongst leaves and moss in woods. 



Solitary, elegant, flesh of stem blue, of pilous white ; not 

 splitting nor hygrophanous. Stem rather fragile, often 

 twisted, bright sky-blue, 3 in. long, 4 lines thick ; pileus 

 H-2 in. broad, convexo-plane, at first lilac, then fuscous and 

 pallid. Gills 2 lines broad, thin, at first slightly emarginate, 

 then decurrent. (Fries.) 



The figure given by Cooke does not agree in 'all par- 

 ticulars with the description by Fries, yet it appears to be a 

 form of the present species. 



Cortinarius (Dermo.) albocyaneus. Fr. 



Pileus 1J-2 in. across, fleshy, convex then plane, obtuse, 

 with an evanescent, silky pellicle, becoming smooth, white 

 then yellowish, gills emarginate, about 3 lines broad, crowded, 

 at first bluish-purple, then somewhat ochraceous ; stem 3-4 in. 

 long, - in. thick at the base, somewhat clavate, whitish, 

 naked, stuffed ; spores elliptical, size variable, 6-10 x 4-7 /*. 



Cortinarius (Dermocybe) albocyaneus, Fries, Monogr., ii. p. 62 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 259 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 748. 



In beech woods, &o. 



'' According to Cooke's figure the present species is sometimes 

 slightly fasciculate, and the gills grey then pale cinnamon. 

 Veil cinnamon. 



This species, along with C. tabularis and G. caninus form a 

 very natural section, whose infinity of form is with difficulty 

 defined. The present species runs close to C. alboviolaceus, 

 from which it differs in the naked stem, the obtuse silky 

 pileus that eventually becomes glabrous (not innately- 

 fibrillose), gills crowded, purplish-blue then ochraceous, flesh 

 of pileus white. From C. anomalus the present species differs 



