CORTINARIUS. 9 



marginate, more than 2.5 cent, (i in.) thick, azure-blue-pallid ; Phiegma- 

 internally pale azure-blue, becoming yellow at the base. Gills c " 

 rounded and emarginate, crowded, sometimes crisped, azure-blue, 

 at length cinnamon. 



Very changeable and variable. The above is the earlier form. Later it 

 appears in great troops and is very robust. Pileus compact, very large, un- 

 dulated and tiger -spotted, ochraceous or becoming tawny, when young 

 regular and convex, 7.5-10 cent. (3-4 in.) broad, at length flattened and 

 depressed, 20 cent. (8 in.) broad. Stem somewhat equal, marginate at the 

 base, white or yellowish, fibrillose and striate, naked at the apex. Flesh alike 

 of the pileus and stem yellowish, that of the stem dark yellow below. Gills 

 sinuate, with a small decurrent tooth, 12 mm. (% in.) broad, somewhat 

 crowded, bluish-grey then clay-colour and somewhat cinnamon. 



In pine woods. Frequent. Aug. -Oct. 



Spores sphaeroid- ellipsoid, 8-9x5 mk. K. Name yAavicds, pale blue; 

 n-ov's, a foot. With pale blue stem. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 18. Hym. Eur. p. 344. 

 Berk. Out. p. 184. C. Hbk. n. 492. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 452. Quel. Grev. t. 

 I04./ 5. Ag. Scheeff. t. 53. 



16. C. calochrous Fr. Pileus tawny, yellow round the margin, 

 compact, convex, then plane, obtuse, viscid, guttate, commonly 

 stained with soil ; margin short, regularly involute, when un- 

 folded often flexuous; flesh very white. Stem curt, 4-5 cent. 

 (1)4-2 in.) long, solid, firm, marginato-bulbous, bulb very de- 

 pressed, otherwise equal, fibrillose, yellowish, never becoming 

 dark blue. Cortina marginal, fugacious, yellow. Gills emargin- 

 ate, crowded, serrated, of a beautiful dark blue-purple. 



In woods and pastures. Frequent. 



Name KO\OS, beautiful ; \p<!>s, colour. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 19. Hym. Eur. 

 p. 345. Berk. Out. p. 185. /. 12. /. 3. C. Hbk. n. 493. Quel. Grev. t. 105. 

 f. i. .S. Mycol. Scot. n. 453. 



17. C. cserulescens Fr. Pileus 5 cent. (2 in.), and more 

 broad, dingy yellow, somewhat clay-colour, but varying fuscous- 

 yellowish, c., equally fleshy, convex, at length plane, obtuse, 

 regular, even, rather smooth, but often streaked with fibrils, vis- 

 cid, when dry shining or opaque; flesh violaceous, growing white. 

 Stem 5 cent. (2 in.) long, 12 mm. (y in.) thick (the bulb more 

 than 2.5 cent., i in. thick), solid, equally attenuated upwards 

 from the marginate bulb, firm, at first fibrillose, of a charming 

 violet colour, then naked, becoming pale, whitish. Cortina fibril- 

 lose, fugacious. Gills somewhat aclnate, slightly rounded, thin, 

 very crowded, 4 mm. (2 lin.) broad, at first beautifully and in- 

 tensely azure-blue, then purplish, at length dingy-cinnamon. 



When young the plant is here and there wholly azure-blue. The bulb is here 



