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close, broad, slightly emarginate, wliitisli-ochraceous, then 

 cinnamon ; stipe stout, solid, fibrillose, whitish, girt with one 

 to four red bands, bulbous. 



Height 4-6', breadth of pileus 2-4', stipe 4"- 8" thick. 



Woods. North Elba. August. 



A large and noble species. The margin of the pileus is thin 

 and sometimes uneven ; the npper band on the stem is usually 

 the brightest and most regular. The pileus is not distinctly 

 hygrophanous. 



17. CORTINARIUS DISTANS n. Sp. 



Pileus thin except the disk, convex, squamnlose, bay-brown 

 when moist, tawny Avhen dry ; lamellae broad, distant, thick, 

 dark cinnamon-color ; stipe subequal, often a little tapering 

 ujDward, solid, slightly fibrillose-scaly, concolorous. 



Height 2'-3', breadth of pileus l'-2', stipe 4"- 6" thick. 



Grassy ground in pine woods. Greenbush. June. 



The flesh is dull yellowish. The pileus, when drying, has 

 for a time a brown marginal zone. 



18. CORTINAEILTS BIFORMIS Fr. 



Pileus fleshy, thin except the disk, convex or subcampanu- 

 late, then expanded and broadly umbonate, smooth, shining, 

 of a bay color ; lamellae rather broad at the inner extremity, 

 tapering outwardly, subrounded at the stipe, scarcely emar- 

 ginate, watery cinnamon ; stipe stout, solid or stuffed, fibril- 

 lose-striated, paler than the pileus, subannulate, the sheath 

 white, generally obliquely terminating, sometimes distant. 



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



Ground under spruce and balsam trees. Catskill Mountains. 

 October. 



The plant is sometimes csespitose, and not unfrequently the 

 cuticle cracks into scales or areas. 



19. CORTINAEIUS CASTANEOIDES 11. 82?. 



Pileus thin, convex, becoming expanded, with deflexed 

 margin, smooth, dark bay or chestnut-color when moist, paler 

 when dry ; lamellae not crowded, slightly and unequally 

 emarginate, yellowish-cinnamon, then cinnamon-color; stipe 

 slender, equal, stuffed or hollow, subannulate, paler than the 

 pileus, the veil or sheath white. 



Height l'-2', breadth of pileus 6"- 12", stipe l"-2" thick. 



Under hemlock trees. Catskill Mountains. October. 



The pileus sometimes has a small umbo. The plant is gre- 

 garious or caespitose. The veil is subpersistent, and its abrupt 

 termination affords a quite distinct annulus. (Plate 4, flgs. 

 10-15.) 



