CORTINARIUS. 89 



both ends, whitish, striate above the evanescent veil, stuffed 

 with cottony fibres ; spores 8-10 x 5-7, /it, rough. 



Cortinarius (Myxadum) livido-ochraceous, Berk., Outl., p. 187; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 250 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 767. 



In woods. 



Small, pileus about 1 in. broad, spores 8-10 x 5-7 /*, 

 rough in the original specimens in Berkeley's Herbarium. 

 The large size given in some books for the spores of this 

 species must be an error. (Cooke.) 



Pileus 1 in. broad, quite smooth, shining, covered with a 

 thick subcartilaginous skin, the margin very thin but not 

 striate, plane, livid-ochraceous ; edge with a few indistinct 

 fragments of the veil. Gills cinnamon, the extreme margin 

 pale, moderately distant, broad in front, appearing as if 

 adnexed, but the tooth does not properly belong to the gills, 

 but to the stem, and is a small plate inserted between the 

 two laminae of the gills. Sporules elliptic. Stem 1 in. 

 high, f in. thick in the middle where it is swollen, attenuated 

 below, silky, of a beautiful violet, ochraceous at the base ; 

 subsquamoso, the portion above the obsolete ring striate r 

 stuffed with cottony fibres. Inodorous ; taste like that of 

 A. campestris. (Berk.) 



DELIBUTI. 



* Gills whitish, then pale-tan. 



Cortinarius (Myx.) nitidus. Fr. 



Pileus 2-5 in. across, truly fleshy, convex then expanded,, 

 gibbous or almost obtuse, glabrous, glutinous, honey-coloured 

 tan, at length whitish, disc tan-colour, when dry the pellicle 

 is often cracked in streaks ; flesh, as also that of the stem, 

 compact, white; gills truly decurrent in every stage of 

 growth, at first arcuate, crowded, narrow, about 2 lines 

 broad, quite entire, at first whitish, soon tan-colour, at length 

 watery cinnamon ; stem stuffed, soft inside, or sometimes 

 hollow, base clavate, 2-4 in. long, in. and more thick, often 

 curved, tough, elastic, even, fibrillose and pallid- white when, 

 young, then naked and yellowish ; viscid when growing, 

 dry in dry weather, apex at first mealy with white powder ; 



