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.and for the most part cracked into squamules, dark violet, 

 (sometimes purple-violet, margin at first involute, flesh soft, 

 deeper-coloured than -the pileus ; gills somewhat adnate, 

 firm, distant, connected by veins, broader than the flesh of 

 the pileus, dark, .almost blackish- violet then cinnamori- 

 colour from the spores, but violet when the spores are fallen ; 

 stem solid, stout, remarkably bulbous, 34 in. long, 1 in. 

 thick, spongy, sofr, at first tomentose, then fibrillose, dark 

 violet, inside greyish-violet; veil woolly, blue, then ferru- 

 ginous from the falling spores; spores 12-14 X 9-10 ft. 



Cortinarius (Inoloma) violacem, Linn., Cke., Hdbk., p. 252 ; 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 770. 



In woods. 



Easily distinguished from allied forms by being dark 

 violet both outside and inside, the villoso-squamulose pileus, 

 and distant gills. (Fries.) 



Large, handsome. Pileus 3-6 in. broad, obtuse, expanded. 

 Gills, when young deep violet, almost black. Stem 4 in. 

 high, when young subtomentose. (Fries.) 



If attention be paid to the sporules and arachnoid veil, 

 there will be no danger of confounding this with any of the 

 varieties of A. personatus. (Berk.) 



Cortinarius (Ino.) cyanites. Fr. 



Pileus 35 in. across, fleshy, obtuse, silky, becoming 

 :smooth, pale sky-blue; gills adnexed, rounded behind, some- 

 what crowded, at first clear steel-blue ; stem 3-5 in. long, 

 |-| in. thick at the apex, bulbous, smooth, sky-blue, con- 

 taining a blood-red juice ; spores elliptical, 10 x 5-6 p.. 



Cortinarius (Inoloma} cyanites, Fries, Epicr., p. 279 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 252." 



In woods. 



The stem gives out a blood-red juice when compressed. 

 Pileus at length glabrous, livid-brownish. Flesh at first 

 pale sky-blue, then dingy white, and often tinged red. 



Var. major. Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 361. Pileus and stem 

 fleshy, tardily becoming reddish; gills rather distant, dark 

 bluish-grey. (Fries.) 



Cortinarius (Ino.) muricinus. Fr. 

 Pileus 34 in. across, fleshy, convex then expanded, obtuse, 

 becoming smooth, violaceous then with a reddish tinge, 



