94 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



t CLIDUCHII. 

 * Gills pallid then tan-colour. 



Cortinarius (Phleg.) triumphans. Fr. 



Pileus 3-5 in. broad, fleshy, convex then expanded, viscid, 

 even, at first spotted with minute, adpressed, dusky squamules 

 that soon disappear, yellow; gills emarginate, crowded, 

 quite entire at the margin, 3 lines broad, pallid then tan- 

 colour, stem 3-6 in. long, up to -- in. thick, clavate, furnished 

 downwards with several concentric, squaniulose, tawny ring- 

 like zones, whitish, solid ; veil superior, fugacious or some- 

 times interwoven to form an imperfect ring ; spores ellipti- 

 cal, 12-14 x 5-6 p. 



Cortinarius triumphans, Fries, Epicr., p. 256 ; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 236 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 692. 



Coi'tinarius sublanatus, Hussey, 11, t. 22. 



In woods under birch, &c. 



Large, beautiful, the remains of the veil on the stem 

 resembling a triumphal column, hence the name. There are 

 two forms, the larger in humid woods; stem solid, firm, 

 attenuated upwards from the ovate bulbous base, 25 in, 

 long, ^ in. and more thick, striate yellowish-white, tawny 

 squamules are arranged in many circles (or rings) at 

 intervals on the stem (and readily separable), partial veil 

 superior, interwoven, forming a more or less complete ring. 

 Pileus fleshy, not very thick, convexo-plane, obtuse, regular, 

 35 in. broad, viscid when moist and yellowish-tan or 

 ochraceous, yellow when dry ; the disk variegated with spot- 

 like squamules or altogether naked. Margin even, not 

 incurved. Flesh of pileus and stem compact, white. Gills 

 emarginate, crowded, 3 lines broad, with a decurrent tooth, 

 and terminating in a contiguous white, mealy zone, densely 

 veined at the sides, plane, white, or very slightly tinted with 

 grey, at length clay colour or almost cinnamon. Small form 

 in dry birch, heathery woods, amongst heaps of leaves. Stem 

 3-4 in. long, up to 1 in. thick, often curved and rather root- 

 ing, variegated below with many concentric rings of yellow 

 squamules, naked above; resembling P. radicosa. Ring 

 superior, entire, but thin and deciduous, hiimid and floscose 



