CORTINARIUS. 19 



Name elatus, tall. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 37. Hym. Eur. p. 355. Icon. t. Myxacium. 

 149. /. i. Berk. Out. p. 186. C. Hbk. n. 502. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 459. Sow. 

 t. 9. 



36. C. grallipes Fr. Pileus 7.5 cent. (3 in.) broad, ferruginous 

 when moist, when dry ochraceous-tan, opaque, almost membrana- 

 ceous with exception of the disc, with a prominent often acute 

 umbo, campanulate then flattened, even, hygrophanous, slightly 

 viscid (not glutinous). Stem 10-15 cent. (4-6 in.) long, 4-6 mm. 

 (2-3 lin.) thick, stuffed then hollow, wholly equal, but flexuous, 

 tough, fibroso-striate, viscous, yellowish-tawny, ochraceous when 

 dry, naked at the apex. Gills wholly adnate, with a decurrent 

 tooth, 12 mm. (}4 in.) broad, plane, attenuated in front, crowded, 

 even at the sides, clay-colour then ferruginous. 



The habit is that of C. hinnuleus, but it is viscous not torn. 

 Among grass near trees. Ashton Park, Bristol. Oct. 



Pileus very slimy when wet ; veil fugacious, cobweb-like, pale, whitish brown ; 

 spores dark ferruginous. W.G.S. Na.megrallce, stilts; pes, a foot. Long- 

 stemmed as if on stilts. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 38. Hym. Eur. p. 355. Saund. 

 & Sm. t. 27. 



37. C. livido-ochraceus Berk. Pileus 2.5 cent, (i in.) broad, 

 livid-ochre, somewhat membranaceous, plane, viscid, margin not 

 striate. Stem 2.5 cent, (i in.) high, ^ thick in the middle, beau- 

 tiful violet, ochraceous at the base, stuffed with cottony fibres, 

 attenuated at either end, somewhat scaly, striate above the fugi- 

 tive veil. Gills somewhat adnexed, broad in front, moderately 

 distant, cinnamon, the extreme margin pale. 



Pileus quite smooth, shining, covered with a thick subcartilaginous skin, 

 the margin very thin ; edge with a few indistinct fragments of the veil. In- 

 odorous. Nearest to the smooth-stemmed form of C. collinitus. 



In woods. Uncommon. Sept.-Oct. 



An undoubted specimen has been gathered with the margin of the pileus 

 striate. Spores lemon-shaped, 13-15x6-8 mk. C.B.P. Name livid-ochre 

 in colour. Berk. Out. p. 186. Eng. Fl. v. p. 89. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 356. 

 C. Hbk. n. 504. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 460. 



tt DELIBUTI. 

 * No British species. - 



** Gills at first violaceous, &*c. 



38. C. salor Fr. Pileus grey, bright violaceous round the in- 

 flexed margin, at length of the same colour, when young obtusely 

 conical or parabolic, soon campanulate and at length flattened 

 with a broad umbo on account of the compactly fleshy disc, thin 



