CORTINARIUS. 15 



** GUIs Violaceous, &C. Phlegms 



cium 



28. C. decolorans Fr. Pileus 4-6 cent. (i%-2% in.) broad, 

 'wholly persistently yellow, fleshy, convex then flattened, somewhat 

 gibbous, equal, even, smooth, viscous ; flesh thin, firm, white. 

 Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long-, 6-8 mm. (3-4 lin.) thick, stuffed, 

 equally attenuated, shining white, smooth above the somewhat 

 persistent medial cortina. Gills sinuato-adnexed, crowded, thin, 

 6 mm. (3 lin.) broad, juiceless, purplish then soon cinnamon. 



The gills are unchangeable when bruised. Easily mistaken for a thin form 

 of C. varius, differing, however, in the thinner unicolorous pileus, in the stem 

 being more slender, externally rigid, polished, without a bulb, and smooth 

 with exception of the cortina. 



In fir woods. Epping Forest. Oct. 



Name de, and coloro, to colour. From the gills changing colour. Fr. 

 Monogr. ii. p. 31. Hym. Eur. p. 351. Grevillea, vol. xiv. p. 38. 



29. C. porphyropus Fr. Pileus 4-7.5 cent. (1^-3 in.) broad, 

 livid-light yellowish or clay-colour, unchangeable when touched, 

 fleshy, very thin at the margin, convexo-plane, obtuse, even, 

 innately streaked, viscid ; flesh thin, soft, whitish, soon becoming 

 purple-lilac when broken. Stem 5-10 cent. (2-4 in.) long, about 

 6 mm. (3 lin.) thick, stuffed, at length hollow, somewhat bulbous 

 or rather equally attenuated from the thickened base (sometimes 

 equal), fragile, externally and internally violaceous-lilac, soon 

 becoming pale, even whitish, but soon becoming violaceous-lilac 

 again when touched. Cortina inferior, fibrillose. Gills rounded 

 or emarginate, somewhat crowded, rather broad (4-8 mm., 2-4 

 lin.) purplish then watery cinnamon, becoming purple again 

 when touched. 



It approaches C. purpurascens, but the gills are crowded in that species. 

 In woods. Coed Coch, 1871. Oct. 



Name 7rop<|>vpeo?, purple ; irovs, a foot. From the stem becoming purple 

 when touched. Fr. Monogr. ii. /. 31. Hym. Eur. p. 351. B. 5s 3 Br. n. 1351. 



30. C. croceo-cseruleus Fr. Pileus 2.5 cent, (i in.), or a little 

 more broad, lilac or faintly violaceous, fleshy but thin, convex 

 then plane, obtuse or gibbous, even, smooth, viscous ; flesh watery, 

 pallid. Stem 5 cent. (2 in.) long, hollow, somewhat equal (some- 

 times attenuated downwards), 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) thick, even, 

 smooth, naked, fragile, whitish. Cortina white, fibrillose, fuga- 

 cious. Gills attenuated or broadly emarginate, with a small 

 very thin decurrent tooth, plane, somewhat distant, lilac then 

 clay-saffron. 



