CORTINARIUS. 71 



In colour the present species approaches C. percomus and 

 C. callisteus, but is readily known from either by the above 

 characters. Flesh whitish. 



**** Becoming olivaceous. Veil dingy, pallid, or fuscous. 

 Pileus not torn into scales. 



Cortinarius (Dermo.) cotoneus. Fr. 



Pileus about 3 in. across, flesh thin, soft, pale olive, cain- 

 panulate then expanded, obtuse, rather wavy, everywhere 

 densely covered with a clear olive down or tomentum, fragile, 

 when old ; gills adnate, separating from the stem, rather 

 crowded, 2-3 lines broad, olive then cinnamon, edge same 

 colour and quite entire ; stem 3 in. long, | in. thick, soft, 

 bulbous, somewhat fibrillose, pale olive, solid ; veil persistent, 

 forming a brown interwoven zone near the apex of the stem ; 

 spores elliptical, granular, 10-11 X 8 p.. 



Cortinarius (Dennocybe) cotoneus, Fries, Epicr., p. 289 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 262 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 749. 



In woods. 



Very showy ; soft to the touch, olivaceous outside and 

 inside; opaque, pileus lax, 3 in. broad, covered with a 

 pure olive-coloured, subpersistent down. Stem 3 in. long. 

 (Fries.) 



Cortinarius (Dermo.) subnotatus. Fr. 



Pileus 3-4 in. across, flesh thin, campanulate then ex- 

 panded, at first clothed with hoary, floccose, superficial 

 squamules, soon glabrous, olive then fuscous ; gills adnate, 

 ventricose, broad, rather distant, yellowish then olivaceous- 

 cinnamon; stem 3 4 in. long, ^iri. thick, conical, squamulose 

 with the yellowish fibrils of the veil, smooth and shining at 

 the apex, stuffed and spongy inside ; spores elliptical, 

 granular, 10 X 5 /j,. 



Cortinarius (Dermocyle) subnotatus, Fries, Epicr., p. 290 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 262 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 832 ? 



In beech woods, &c. 



A tall species ; stem stout, fragile, 3-4 in. long, glabrous 

 when adult. Pileus at first conical, acute, gibbous, pale, 

 4 in. broad ; peculiar in becoming quite plane, glabrous, and 

 dark fuscous when adult and dry. Gills 3-5 lines broad, con- 

 nected by veins, rather thick. (Fries.) 



