188 Cortinarius. 



cm. brownish squamulose above the middle, apex even, pallid; 

 sp. 7x5. 



C. phrygianus differs in blackish squamules of p. and s. and 

 strong smell of radishes. Both are often tinged olive when young. 



[melanotus, Kalchbr. P. convex, yellow, covered with minute, 

 adpressed, blackish-olive scales, flesh olive-yellow ; g. yellowish 

 cinnamon; s. solid, narrowed upwards, yellowish, with small umber 

 scales up to ring. 



penicillatus, Fr. P. 3 4 cm. convex, umb. rusty-brown, densely 

 floccose with innate scales; g. dusky brown; s. 4 7 cm. slender, 

 equal, with adpressed rusty-brown scales ; sp. 8 9 x 5. 



IV. DERMOCYBE. 



Flesh of pileus thin, everywhere equal, at first downy or 

 subinnately silky, but glabrous when adult, dry, not 

 hygr. 



* Gills at first whitish or pallid. 



ochroleucus, Fr. P. 4 7 cm. gibbous then obtuse, even, pallid 

 white ; g. crowded becoming ochre-tan ; s. 4 7 cm. solid, firm, 

 ventricose, white ; sp. 8 x 4 5. 



decumbens, Fr. P. 3 4 cm. exp. even, white then yellowish, 

 shining; g. tan from first; s. 3 4 cm. hollow, clavato-bulbous, 

 ascending, pallid ; sp. . 



riculatus, Fr. P. 5 7 cm. exp. gibbous, yellowish, with ad- 

 pressed silky bloom, becoming whitish, disc naked ; g. adnate ; 

 s. 5 7 cm. hollow, pallid, base thickened. 



tabularis, Fr. P. 6 9 cm. soon plane, flocculose then almost 

 glabrous, brownish tan then pale ; g. emarginate ; s. 5 7 cm. white, 

 adpressedly fibrilloso-scaly then almpst glabrous ; sp. . 



[ochrophyllus, Fr. P. exp. dry, glabrous, brownish olive then 

 pale; g. ochre then tan; s. solid, pallid, variegated with darker 

 adpressed scales. 



camarus, Fr. Fragile. P. 5 7 cm. gibbous, hoary brown then 

 pale ; g. subadnate ; s. 5 7 cm. partly hollow, equal, curved, inside 

 and outside white, apex silvery shining ; sp. 8 9 x 6 7. 



diabolicus, Fr. P. 2 3 cm. hemispher. obtuse then gibbous, 

 fucescent with a grey bloom, then glabrous and tawny yellow; 

 g. subemarginately adnexed ; s. 6 7 cm. glabrous, pallid, apex grey; 

 sp. 1012 x 7. 



* * Gills at first violet then purplish. 



caninus, Fr. P. 5 9 cm. exp. nearly glabrous, rufous-brick-red, 

 tawny when dry ; g. broad, purple then cinnamon ; s. 5 7 cm. 

 clavately bulbous, subperonate, pallid, apex violet ; sp. 8 x 5 6. 



