Ochrosporae 



(Plate LXXXV.) 



Plant 4-5 in. high. Pileus 3 in. broad. Stem 4-6 lines thick. Cortinarius. 

 Low mossy ground in woods. Croghan. September. This is a rare 

 but beautiful plant, allied to C. alboviolaceus, from which it may be 

 distinguished by its stouter habit, deeper color and bulbous stem. In 

 the young plant the bulb is much broader than the undeveloped pileus 

 that surmounts it. Peck, 26th Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



Massachusetts, Frost; Minnesota, Nova Scotia. 



I have found a few specimens in several places: West Virginia, Red- 

 man's woods, Haddonfield, N. J., in which place it is more plentiful 

 than in any locality I have noted. Near lake at Eagle's Mere, Pa., 

 August, and at Springton, Pa. Excellent. 



C. as'per Pk. rough. Pileus fleshy, firm, hemispherical, then con- 

 vex, rough with minute, erect, brown 

 scales, ochraceous. Grills close, 

 rounded behind and slightly emar- 

 ginate, dull violaceous, then pale cin- 

 namon. Stem equal, bulbous, solid, 

 fibrillose-scaly, colored like the pileus 

 but smooth and violaceous at the top, 

 the bulb white with an abundant 

 mycelium. Spores broadly elliptical, 

 with a pellucid nucleus, 8/t long. 



Plant 3-4 in. high. Pileus 2-3 in. 

 broad. Stem 3-5 lines thick. Ground 

 in cleared places. Greig. September. 



A fine species. The flesh of the 

 stem is violaceous. Peck, 24th Rep. 

 N. Y. State Bot. 



This plant sometimes grows in tufts 

 or clusters and bears a very close re- 

 semblance to Armillaria mellea, both 

 in color and in the character of the 

 scales of the pileus. Peck, 2/th Rep. 



In thin woods and clearings, West Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. 

 The whole fungus is edible when young, and ranks high in Cortinarii. 

 When full grown the stem is hard. Cut in thin, transverse slices it 



CORTINARIUS ASPER. 

 About two-thirds natural size. 



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