CORTINARIUS. 3 



6 mm. (3 lin.) broad, with a small decurrent tooth which ends Phiegma- 

 determinately in a continuous mealy white zone, densely veined C1 

 at the sides, plane, whitish or inclining to very pale bluish grey, 

 at length clay-colour and somewhat cinnamon. 



Large, splendid, from its zones of scales recalling A. Vittadinii. The 

 scales readily fall off. A smaller form occurs in dry birch woods. 



In grassy ground. Rare. Sept. 



Spores ellipsoid or oblong-ellipsoid, 12-16 x 5-6 mk. K. ; pruniform, punc- 

 tate, 12-13 n 'k. (? Name from the stem resembling a triumphal column. 

 Fr. Monogr. ii. /. 4. Hym. Eur. p. 336. Icon. t. 141. /. i. B. & Br. n. 

 1263. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 445. A. sublanatus Huss. ii. /. 22. 



2. 0. claricolor Fr. Pileus 7.5-10 cent. (3-4 in.) and more 

 broad, yellow, unchangeable, wholly fleshy, convexo-flattened, 

 and at length depressed, at the first everywhere, soon only round 

 the margin veiled with superficial, silky-pruinose, villous down, 

 then wholly smooth, even,y#r the most part however broken into 

 scales. Stem solid, hard, white, wholly clothed as far as the 

 superior cortina (above which it is white-mealy) with white scaly 



fiocci or lax down, but when full grown the cortina and scales 

 alike disappear, otherwise sometimes curt, bulbous, sometimes 

 elongated and conico-attenuated or cylindrical ; flesh of the pileus 

 and stem white. Gills sometimes emarginate, almost free, some- 

 times adnate, crowded, at the first whitish then clay-colour, the 

 edge unequal. 



Very changeable in form, but always very robust and compact. Interme- 

 diate between C. triumphans and C. turmalis. In a var. the gills are at first 

 slightly bluish-grey. 



In mixed woods. Glamis, &c. Sept.-Nov. 



Spores pruniform, nucleate, 11-12x6-8 mk. C.B.P. ; 12x6 mk. W.P. 

 Name clarus, clear ; color, colour. Of pure colour. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 5. 

 Hym. Eur. p. 336. Icon. t. 141. /. 2. B. & Br. n. 1541. 5. Mycol. Scot. n. 

 446. Quel. Grev. t. 102. f. i. 



3. C. turmalis Fr. Pileus yellow-tan, most frequently darker 

 at the disc, not changeable, compact, convex then plane, very 

 obtuse, even, smooth (sometimes obsoletely piloso-virgate), when 

 young veiled with pruinate but very fugacious villous down, soon 

 naked, viscid; flesh white. Stem sometimes 7.5 cent. (3 in.), 

 sometimes 15 cent. (6 in.) long, 2.5 cent, (i in.), thick, solid, very 

 hard, rigid, cylindrical, here and there attenuated at the base, 

 shining white when dry, when young sheathed with a white woolly 

 veil, naked when full grown. Cortina entirely fibrillose, superior 

 and persistent in the form of a ring, at length ferruginous with 



