96 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



The mealy, floccose covering of the pilens in C. caperaius 

 (not British), C. triumphans, C. claricolor, and C. turmalis, is 

 due to the presence of a universal veil ; in the first named 

 the stem is annulate, otherwise naked ; in the second with 

 concentric rings of tawny squamules ; in the third woolly 

 with white squamules; in the present at first with white 

 woolliness, soon naked. (Fries.) 



Cortinarius (Phleg.) crassus. Fr. 



Pileus 3-5 in. across, flesh very thick, soft, pallid, convex 

 then expanded and somewhat depressed, dingy yellow or 

 dingy tawny-yellow, disc glabrous, the remainder strigose 

 with innate fibrils, opaque, the disc only slightly viscid at 

 first ; gills rounded behind, adnexed, rather narrow, crowded, 

 quite entire, pallid, then pale dingy tan-colour; stem 3-4 in. 

 long, 1 in. and more thick at the incrassated base, fibrillose, 

 whitish, apex with white meal, solid ; spores rough, almond- 

 shaped, 15 x 7 /*. 



Cortinarius (Phlegmaciuvi) crassus, Fries, Epicr., p. 257 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 237 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 695. 



In moist woods. 



Cortinarius (Phleg.) balteatus. Fr. 



Pileus 3-4 in. across, compact, flattened, very obtuse, com- 

 monly depressed at the disc and often unequal, at first 

 viscid, shining when dry, innately floccose, fibrillose and 

 shining near the margin ; disc smoky-tawny or bay, pretty 

 violet or lilac near the margin ; but this colour often disap- 

 pears with age or when dry; gills distinctly emarginate, 

 broad in front, rather crowded, quite entire, at first pallid, 

 then somewhat tan-colour (nankin) ; stem solid, stout, very 

 compact, sometimes equal, sometimes ovately bulbous, 1|- 

 2 in. long, more than 1 in. thick, rarely longer, very minutely 

 velvety and dingy above the fibrillose, adpressed, rusty veil, 

 but in some specimens tomentose and white. 



Cortinarius (Phlegmacium) balteatus, Fries, Epicr., p. 7 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 237'; Cke., Illustr., pi. 696. 



In mixed woods. 



The size, cuticle of pileus soon becoming flocculose, margin 

 villose and violet distinguish this species from its allies ; the 

 gills are sometimes rounded behind, and tan-colour; or sub- 

 decurrent, very narrow, and whitish. (Fries.) 



