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and ascending, soft, adpressedly fibrillose, pallid-white, apex 

 very slightly pruinose. Cortina thin, fugacious. Pileus 

 fleshy, convex then expanded, obtuse, 4 in. broad, viscid, 

 disc glabrous, innately fibrillose near the margin, every- 

 where rufous ; gills obtusely adnate, (hardly rounded) 4-5 

 lines broad, crowded, connected by veins, rusty-rufous. 

 Affinities difficult to indicate. (Fries.) 



**** Gills olivaceous. 



Cortinarius (Phleg.) infractus. Fr. 



Pileus about 3 in. across, fleshy, convex then expanded, 

 oblique, viscid, everywhere glabrous, olive then yellowish, 

 opaque, having a brownish ridge near the margin, which is 

 at first broken, then revolute and wavy ; flesh watery, hardly 

 blue ; gills rounded behind, adnexed, crowded, up to 4 lines 

 broad, soft, transversely veined, colour very dark olive- 

 umber ; stem solid, 3 in. long, robust, ovately bulbous, 

 adpressedly fibrillose, soft, olive becoming pale ; spores pip- 

 shaped, 10 X 8 fi. 



Cortinarius (Phlegmacium) infractus, Fries, Epicr., p. 261 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 240; Cke., Illustr., pi. 704. 



In beech woods, &c. 



Kobust. Stem brownish-olive, apex smoky, rarely tinged 

 violet. Pileus at first equal, opaque, lurid olive, then yel- 

 lowish ; at length with a brown zone near the margin ; flesh 

 dingy then whitish. Gills quite entire, scarcely crisped, 

 undulated. (Fries.) 



Cortinarius (Phleg.) anfractus. Fr. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, equally fleshy, but the thin, broken 

 margin usually very irregular, even, glabrous, dark olive 

 then tawny soot-colour ; flesh whitish, with a tinge of violet 

 near the apex of the stem ; gills emarginate, distant, 3-4 

 lines broad, crisped, smoky-olive ; stem clavate, immar- 

 ginate, 2 in. or more long, |-| in. thick, ascending, fibrillose, 

 very dingy, apex violet, often hollow; veil superior, not 

 forming a ring. 



Cortinarius (Phlegmacium) anfractus, Fries, Monogr., ii. 

 p. 14 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 240 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 705. 



In woods. 



