106 TWENTY-TUIRIJ MeFOKT ON THE iSTATE CABISET. 



the edge, whitish, then cinnamon ; stipe equal, solid or stuffed, 

 firm, fibrillose, wliitish, bulbous. 



Height 4-6', breadth of pileus 3-4', stipe 4"- 6" thick. 



Mossy ground under fir trees. Catskill Mountains. Octo- 

 ber. 



The lamellse appear as if finely and obscurely striated trans- 

 versely. The color of the pileus is a rich, reddish-yellow, 

 almost orange. 



2. COKTIlSrARIUS LUTEO-FUSCUS 71. Sp. 



Pileus fleshy, broadly convex, even, smooth, brown ; lamellse 

 rather close, yellow, then cinnamon, deeply emarginate ; stipe 

 equal, nearly straight, solid, silky, striate, whitish, bulbous. 



Height about 4', breadth of pileus 2', stipe 3"- 4" thick. 



Woods. ISTorth Elba. August. The fuscous pileus, yellow 

 lamellse, and white stem give the plant a tricolored appear- 

 ance. 



CORTINARIUS COMMUNIS fl. Sp. 



Pileus fleshy, broadly convex or expanded, whitish or gray, 

 tinged with red, the disk deeper colored ; lamellse rather 

 broad, not crowded, emarginate and spuriously decurrent- 

 toothed, whitish, then ochraceous-cinnamon ; stipe equal, solid 

 or stuffed, not bulbous, white-mealy at the top, fibrillose 

 below, dingy white. 



Height 2'-4', breadth of pileus 2'- 3', stipe 3"- 5" thick. 



Woods and open places. Common. Center, Catskill Moun- 

 tains, etc. September and October. 



, CORTINAEIUS CAPERATUS F'r. 



Pileus fleshy, not thick except on the disk, at first ovate, 

 then subcampanulate or expanded, obtuse or broadly sub- 

 umbonate, often irregular and rugose-wrinkled, bright egg- 

 yellow ; lamellse rather broad, slightly emarginate and decur- 

 rent-toothed, whitish, then pale cinnamon ; stipe stout, nearly 

 equal, not bulbous, solid, annulate, white, meal^^-squamulose 

 above the ring. 



Height 4'-8', breadth of pileus 3'- 5', stipe 6"- 10" thick. 



Woods. Catskill and Adirondack Mountains. August- 

 October. 



A large and showy species, not agreeing well with the 

 characters of tlie subgenus. Tlie pileus is said to be sb'ghtly 

 viscid and incrustedwith superlicial white flocci, which at 

 lengtli disapjx'ar. In our specimens, even when young, no 

 incrustation was perceptible, neither was the pileus clearly 



