Agaricaceae 



Cortinarius. 



(Plate LXXXVIO 



CORTINARIUS ANNULATUS. 

 Natural size. 



yellow fibrillose annular-terminated 

 veil. Spores broadly elliptical or 

 subglobose, 8/u, long. 



Pileus 1-3 in. broad. Stem 1.5-3 

 in. long, 3-6 lines thick. 



Thin woods. Whitehall. August. 

 The whole plant is yellow inclin- 

 ing to ochraceous. It has the odor 

 of radishes. The squamules of the 

 pileus are pointed and erect on the 

 disk, and often darker-colored there. 

 The species is allied to C. tophaceus 

 and C. callisteus, from which it is 

 separated by its persistently annulate 

 stem and more yellow color. Peck, 

 43d Rep. 



Specimens received from E. B. 

 Sterling, Trenton, N. J., September 

 5, 189/0 Identified by Professor 

 Peck. Mixed woods Kingsessing, 

 near Bartram's Garden, Philadelphia, September, 1897. 



Solitary among grass and leaves. The permanent marking of the 

 veil is conspicuous. Eight specimens were found and eaten. The caps 

 cook tender, and have a decided but not unpleasant flavor. 



DERMO'.CYBE. (Gr. skin; Gr. ahead.) 



C. cinnabari'nus Fr. cinnabaris, dragon's blood. Pileus 2-3 in. 

 broad, scaf let-red, truly fleshy, campanulate, then flattened, obtuse or 

 very obtusely umbonate, silky, then becoming smooth and shining, or 

 obsoletely scaly; the firm flesh paler. Stem 1^-2 in. long, 3-4 lines 

 and more thick, solid, equal, sometimes however bulbous, fibrillose or 

 striate, scarlet-red, reddish brick-color internally. Cortina fibrillose, lax, 

 cinnabar. Gills wholly adnate, somewhat decurrent, 3 lines broad, some- 

 what distant, connected by veins, unequal and darker at the edge, dark 

 blood-color when bruised. 



Odor of radish. Readily distinguished from all others by '^splen- 

 did scarlet color, and from C. sanguineus by its short solid and firm 



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