106 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



persistent, but this may be owing to the dryness of the 

 summer in which it occurred. (Berk.) 



Cortinarius (Phleg.) caerulescens. Fr. 



Pileus 2-3 in, across, equally fleshy, convex then plane, 

 obtuse, regular, even, almost glabrous, but often fibrilloso-vir- 

 gate; viscid, when dry shining or opaque, dingy yellow, almost 

 tan-colour, varying to yellowish-brown, &c. ; gills slightly 

 rounded behind, adnexed, thin, closely crowded, 2 lines 

 broad, at first clear intense blue then becoming purplish, 

 at length dingy cinnamon ; stem about 2 in. long, i in. thick 

 (bulb more than an inch), firm, equally attenuated" upwards, 

 at first fibrillose, bright violet, then becoming pale and 

 whitish, naked, bulb often disappearing with age ; veil 

 fibrillose, fugacious; spores elliptical, 9-10 x 5 //.. 



Cortinarius caerulescens, Fries, Epicr., p. 265 ; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 242 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 721, 722. 



Amongst moss in woods, &c. 



Neither the gills nor the flesh change colour when broken. 

 a point which distinguishes the present from C. purpurascens. 

 When young every part is generally blue. Smell scarcely 

 any. (Fries.) 



Cortinarius (Phleg.) purpurascens. Fr. (figs. 1, 2, 

 14, p. 16.) 



Pileus 4-5 in. across, fleshy, disc compact, obtuse, wavy, 

 variable, covered with a dense layer of gluten, but opaque 

 when dry, bay or reddish then tawny-olivaceous, spotted; 

 often depressed round the margin, which is at first incurved 

 then wavy, marked with a raised brown line ; flesh entirely 

 clear blue ; gills broadly emarginate, 3 lines and more broad, 

 crowded, bluish-tan, then cinnamon, violet-purple when 

 bruised ; stem about 3 in. long, -- in. and more thick, solid, 

 bulbous, everywhers fibrillose, intensely pallid clear blue, 

 very compact, juicy, becoming purplish-blue when touched, 

 bulb submarginate ; spores elliptical, 10-12 x 56 p.. 



Cortinarius purpurascens, Fries, Epicr., p. 265 ; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 243 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 723, 724. 



In pine woods, &c. 



Gills becoming spotted with purple when touched, a 

 character that separates the present species from some allies, 



