CORTINARIUS. 7 



**** Gills Olivaceous. Phlegma- 



cium. 



11. C. anfractus Fr. Pileus 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) broad, dark 

 olivaceous, becoming fuliginous -tawny, equally fleshy, but at 

 length very irregular at the thin bent in margin, even, smooth. 

 Stem 5 cent. (2 in.) or a little more long, 12 mm. (# in.) and 

 more thick, clavate, immarginate, ascending, fibrillose, very dingy, 

 violaceous at the apex, here and there hollow within. Cortina 

 superior, but not in the form of a ring. Flesh whitish, obsoletely 

 violaceous at the apex of the stem. Gills emarginate, distant, 

 6-8 mm. (3-4 lin.) broad, crisped, olivaceous-fuliginous. 



The pileus is always zoneless, but it varies fuliginous when moist, when dry 

 yellowish-olivaceous, with tiger-spots. It is often pitted and depressed round 

 the margin, which is at length lobed. It varies regular. 



In woods. Rare. King's Cliffe, c. 



The whole plant when young is covered with a white volva. M.J.B. 

 Spores 6x4 mk. W.P. Name anfractus, bent, waved, repand. Of the 

 margin of the pileus. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 14. Hym. Eur. p. 341. Berk. 

 Out. p. 184. C. Hbk. n. 496. Quel. Grev. t. 104.7. 3- 



tf SCAURI. 

 * Gills whitish, then clay-coloured, &c. 



12. C. multiformis Fr. Pileus unicolorous, light-yellow, clay- 

 yellow, tawny, &c., fleshy, regular, convex then flattened, very 

 obtuse and at length depressed, for the most part very viscous, 

 even, smooth. Stem 5-10 cent. (2-4 in.) long, about 12 mm. 

 (% in.) thick, solid, equal or attenuated, somewhat smooth or 

 adpressedly fibrillose, naked (not pruinose), white then yellowish, 

 with a somewhat marginate bulb. Cortina fibrillose, fugacious, 

 white. Flesh white, at first compact then soft, that of the pileus 

 at length slightly yellow. Gills emarginate, free or with a small 

 decurrent tooth, very thin, crowded, tense and straight, not broad, 

 serrulated, atjirst white, then clay-colour. 



Very changeable. Odour and taste mild. It is distinguished by the colour 

 being by no means violet and not hygrophanous, by the white flesh, and by the 

 crowded serrulated gills being at the first whitish. According to the state of 

 the atmosphere it is very viscid or somewhat dry, then often sprinkled with 

 the universal white veil, the thin margin deflexed. The pileus often varies 

 spotted, and when taller streaked with fibrils ; moreover lacunoso-sulcate, &c. 

 The bulb is about 2.5 cent, (i in.) thick. 



In woods. Uncommon. Aug.-Oct. 



I have seen the bulb so margined as to give the impression of a volva like 

 that of A. pantherinus. M.J.B. Spores ochraceous, Fr. ; pruniform, 

 nucleate, punctate, 5-6x2-3 mk. C.B.P.; 7x4 mk. W.P. Name multus, 



