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purpurata, Cke. and Mass. P. 3 4 cm. exp. obtusely umb. 

 purple or purple-brown, squamulpse, dry; g. adnate, yellow then 

 rusty ; s. 3 4 cm. incurved, purplish and granulose below ; sp. 8 x 5. 



CORTINAKIUS, Fr. 



Key to the Sub-genera. 



I. Phlegmacium. Partial veil cobwebby. Pileus equally 

 fleshy, viscid ; stem firm, dry. p. 177. 



II. Myxacium. Universal veil glutinous, hence the pileus and 

 scarcely bulbous stem are viscid. Pileus rather thin ; gills adnate 

 or decurrent. p. 183. 



III. Inoloma. Pileus equally fleshy, dry, at first scaly, fibrillose 

 or innately silky, not hygrophauous. Veil simple. Stem fleshy, 

 sub-bulbous, p. 1 85. 



IV. Dermocybe. Flesh of pileus thin, everywhere equal, at 

 first downy or subinnately silky, but glabrous when adult, dry, not 

 hygrophauous. p. 188. 



V. Telamonia. Pileus hygrophanous, at first glabrous or with 

 whitish superficial fibrils. Flesh entirely thin or the margin abruptly 

 so, splitting. Universal veil peronate, or forming a ring low down 

 on the stem, apex somewhat cortinate, hence the veil is double. 

 p. 191. 



VI. Hydrocybe. Pileus glabrous or covered with superficial 

 white fibrils, not viscid but moist when growing, losing the deep 

 colour and becoming pale when dry, flesh very thin, splitting, disc 

 rarely thicker. Stem rather rigid, not peronate ; veil thin, fibrillose, 

 rarely collapsing and forming an irregular zone round the stem. 

 p. 196. 



I. PHLEGMACIUM. 



Partial veil cobwebby. Pileus equally fleshy, viscid. 

 Stem firm, dry. 



* CLIDUCHII. Partial veil superior, forming a pendulous 

 ring round the apex of the subequal or clavate stem. 



f* Gills pallid then tan. 



triumphans, Fr. P. 7 12 cm. convex then exp. even, yellow, 

 at first with a few adpr. darker scales; g. emarginate, crowded, 

 quite entire ; s. 7 14 cm. solid, clavate, with several concentric 

 squamulose tawny rings ; sp. 12 14 x 5 6. 



[crocolitus, Q. P. disc, with saffron squamules ; g. white, lilac, 

 then tan ; s. squamulose, ring thin, yellowish- white. 



claricolor, Fr. P. 7 12 cm. firm, exp. glabrous, shining when 



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