Ochrosporse 



PileilS thin, convex, obtuse or umbonate, dry, fibrillose at least when Cortinarius. 

 young. Flesh yellowish. Lamellae thin, close, adnate. Stem slen- 

 der, equal, stuffed or hollow. Spores elliptical, 8/* long. Peck, 48th 

 Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



Spores 7-8x4^ Cooke. 



The Germans are said, to be very fond of this species, which is gen- 

 erally stewed in butter and served with sauce for vegetables. 



Catalogued by Dr. M. A. Curtis, North Carolina, as edible. Edible. 

 Cooke. 



Var. semi-sanguiri ens received from E. B. Sterling, Trenton, N. J., 

 August, 1897. Juicy and good. 



The species is common over the United States and plentiful in its 

 numerous varieties from August to frost. It frequents mixed woods, 

 borders and open and mossy places. The* pine woods of New Jersey 

 yield it in quantity, as do the hemlock forests of Eagle's Mere, Pa., and 

 oak woods of West Virginia. 



It has a smell and taste mildly of radishes. Its flavor when cooked 

 is decided but pleasant. 



TEL AMO'NI A . ( Gr . lint . ) 



C. armilla'tus Yr.armilla, a ring. (Plate LXXXII, fig. 5, p. 306. ) 

 Pileus 35 in. broad, red-brick color, 

 truly fleshy, but not very compact, at 

 first cylindrical, soon campanulate, at 

 length flattened, dry, at first smooth, 

 soon innately fibrillose or squamulose, 

 flesh dingy pallid. Stem 3-6 in. long, 

 % in. thick, solid, firm, remarkably 

 bulbous (bulb I in. thick, villous, 

 whitish) and fibrillose at the base, 

 when old striate and reddish-pallid, 

 internally dirty yellow. Exterior veil 

 woven, red, arranged in 24. distant 

 cinnabar zones encircling the stem; 

 partial veil continuous with the upper 

 zone, arachnoid, reddish-white. Gills 



adnate, slightly rounded, distant, at first pallid cinnamon, at length 

 very broad ( % in.), dark ferruginous, almost bay-brown. 



323 



(Plate LXXXVIII.) 



CORTINARIUS ARMILLATUS. 



