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and yellow. The yellow down of the pileus separates it 

 from C. depexus ; the colour is sea-green or clear yellow-green, 

 flesh greenish-yellow. Pileus obtusely umbonate. (Fries.) 



Subgen. INOLOMA. 

 ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIES. 



* Gills white or pallid at first. 



** Gills, veil, and stem becoming violet. 



*** Gills and veil cinnamon, red, or ochraceous. 



**** Gills and veil dusky, fuscous or olivaceous. 



Subgen. INOLOMA. 

 * Gills at first white or pallid. 



Cortinarius (Ino.) argentatus. Krombh. 



Pileus 3-4 in. across, fleshy, convexo-plane, at length 

 broadly gibbous, silky then almost glabrous, silvery- grey r 

 shining, pale whitish-brown near the margin, at first lilac 

 and silky ; flesh whitish ; gills emarginate, crowded, serrulate, 

 3 lines broad, pallid then watery cinnamon; stem 4 in. 

 long, | in. and more thick, attenuated from the scarcely 

 bulbous base, glabrous, silvery- white, base at length yellowish,. 

 solid, white within ; veil fibrillose, fugacious, pallid, 

 adhering to the margin of the pileus ; spores 8 x 5 /*. 



Cortinarius argentatus, Krombholtz, Icon., t. ii. f. 27 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 250 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 745. 



In woods. 



Large, stout, inodorous, becoming pale; pileus sometimes 

 flexuous. Smell rather strong, but not foetid. 



Var. pinetorum, Fries, Monogr., i. p. 46 ; Cke., Illustr., 

 pi. 746. 



Smaller ; stem 2 in. long, pileus 2 in. broad, at first lilac 

 and silky ; odour weak. 



Cortinarius (Ino.) opimus. Fr. 



Pileus 3-4 in. across, flesh very thick and very hard, white ; 

 convex then plane, deformed, wavy, margin broken, absolutely 



