192 Cortinarius. 



microcyclus, Fr. P. 2 4 cm. thin, plano-convex, fuscous brick- 

 red then pale ; g. adnate, very broad, lilac then cinnamon ; s. 3 5 

 cm. narrowed from base, pallid, white annular zone evident; 

 sp. . 



Differs from C. decipiens in somewhat bulbous stem and white 

 annular zone. 



f "f* Stem and gills violet. Cortina usually white with 

 a violet tinge, but universal veil white. 



torvus, Fr. P. 5 12 cm. convex-exp. obtuse, bay or tinged 

 violet at first then brick-red, hoary with fibrillose squamules then 

 almost glabrous ; g. thick, distant, very broad, purplish umber then 

 cinnamon ; s. 7 12 cm. bulbous then elongated and equal, vaginate 

 with the white persistent veil, apex violet cortinate ; sp. 12 x 7 8. 

 Flesh usually bored by larvae. 



impennis, Fr. P. 3 5 cm. fleshy, convex, obtuse, rigid, gla- 

 brous, somewhat brick-red then pale; g. thick, distant, violet, 

 purplish, then cinnamon ; s. 4 7 cm. rather bulbous, pallid, im- 

 perfect ring and apex violet, whitish cortinate, solid ; sp. 10 11 x 7. 



lucorum, Fr. P. 3 5 cm. even bay brick-red when moist; 

 g. emarginate, cinnamon with a fugacious tinge of flesh-colour violet ; 

 s. 4 5 cm. clavate, very fibrillose, one colour, becoming pale ; sp. 

 10x5. 



plumiger, Fr. P. 4 7 cm. conico-campan. gibbous, brownish- 

 olive, densely covered with white feathery flecks ; g. crowded, broad, 

 edge entire, coloured like rest ; s. 6 9 cm. clavato-bulbous, floccose, 

 pale ; sp. 10 x5. 



scutulatus, Fr. P. 2 3 cm. ovate, exp. obtuse, purplish umber 

 (brick-red) silky white round edge at first, then broken up into 

 squamules ; g. adnate, violet purple ; s. 6 9 cm. solid, rigid, rather 

 bulbous, outside and inside dusky violet, peronate and more or less 

 ringed white ; sp. 7 x 3. 



eyernius, Fr. P. 5 9 cm. conico-campan. exp. glabrous, 

 purplish bay (brick-red and hoary) at length torn into fibrils; g. 

 adnate, very broad, violet purple; s. 7 14 cm. cylindrical, soft, 

 violet, obsoletely ringed from the veil ; sp. 10x7. 



quadricolor, Fr. P. 4 7 cm. conical then exp. whitish yellow 

 (becoming tawny) edge radiato-striate ; g. adnate, broad, serrate, 

 purplish then cinnamon ; s. 6 7 cm. stuffed then hollow, equal, thin, 

 whitish violet, veil forming an oblique white zone : sp. 10 11 x 6 7. 



} ( "f* Stem and veil reddish or yellowish. Gills tawny or 

 cinnamon, not violet nor becoming brown. 



armillatus, Fr. P. 6 9 cm. campan. exp. soon innately fibril- 

 lose and torn into squamules, reddish brick-colour ; g. very broad, 



