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dry, everywhere covered with short, ochraceous down, even, 

 thin, truly rimoso-rivulose ; gills emarginate, much narrower 

 than the thickness of the flesh of the pileus, slightly 

 crowded, whitish then tan-colour, crisped owing to the 

 incurved pileus ; stem very short, about 1 in. long, nearly 

 the same thickness, solid, very compact, base rooting, 

 whitish. 



Cortinarius (Inoloma) opimus, Fries, Monogr., ii. p. 44 ; Fries, 

 Hym. Eur., p. 359. 



On the ground. 



Solitary. Distinguished by the veiy short, thick stem, 

 and the very thick, hard flesh cf the pileus. 



Far. fulvobrunneus, Fries, Monogr., ii. p. 45. 



Stem H in. long, 1 in. thick, attenuated below, fibrillosely 

 striate ; pileus undulated, thinner (margin thin), glabrous, 

 but rimoso-rivulose, tawny- brown ; gills very broad. 



The present variety has not, so far as I am aware, been 

 observed in Britain. 



Cortinarius (Ino.) turgidus, Fr. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, very fleshy and compact, convex 

 then flattened, very obtuse, hoary, rarely sprinkled with 

 shining atoms, silky near the margin when young, every- 

 where glabrous and silvery shining when adult ; flesh hard, 

 white, not changing colour ; gills emarginate, crowded, 2 

 lines broad, quite entire, whitish then tan-colour; stem 

 solid, stout, bulbous, base much swollen, spongy within, 

 rigid and cartilaginous externally, elastic, silvery white, 

 glabrous; but under a lens longitudinally fibriUose and 

 cracked in a reticulate manner, surface often undulated; 

 veil white, fibrillose, fugacious. 



Cortinarius (Inoloma) turgidus, Fr., Epicr., p. 278 ; Fries, 

 Hym. Eur., p. 360. 



In woods. 



Allied to C. argentatus, but known by the very obtuse 

 pileus and the quite entire margin of the gills. 



** Gills, stem, and veil becoming violet. 



Continarius (Ino.) violaceus. Linn. 

 Pileus truly fleshy, 3-6 in. across, convex then expanded, 

 regular, obtuse, everywhere covered with persistent down, 



