180 OUTLINES OF BRITISH FUNGOLOGY. 



campanulate, expanded, smooth, pallid and faintly striate at 

 margin, rufous at apex ; stem smooth, white, fistulose, 

 slender, gradually attenuated upwards ; gills crowded, 

 linear, narrow, attenuated behind and free, rusty ochre. 

 Amongst grass on cliffs. Scarborough. 



Genus 5. CORTINARIUS, Fr. (p. 183.) 



Subgenus 1. Phlegmacium. — Partial veil araclmoid ; pileus 

 equally fleshy, viscous ; stem fii-m, dry. 



t Cliduchii. — Partial veil superior, pendvloits in the/orm oj a 

 ring from the apex of the •nearly equal or clavate stem. 



* Gills pallid then clay colour. 



1. C. (Phlegmacium) triumphans, Fr. ; pileus 3-5 in., 

 yellow, tinged with brown or ochraceous when moist, 

 yellow when dry, variegated at disc with minute spot-like 

 scales or naked, fleshy, convexo-plane, obtuse, regular, 

 margin even ; flesh compact, white ; stem solid, firm, 

 attenuated upwards, base ovato-bulbous, striate, yellowish 

 white, with circles or rings of tawny scales ; partial cortina 

 superior, woven, somewhat ringed ; gills emarginate, 

 crowded, with a decurrent tooth, ending in a mealy-white 

 zone, veined at sides, whitish or pale bluish grey, at length 

 clay colour and somewhat cinnamon. 



In woods under birch. On grassy ground. Rare. 



2. C. (Phlegmacium) claricolor, Fr. ; pileus 3-4 in., 

 yellow, fleshy, convexo-flattened, at length depressed, veiled 

 with superficial, silky-pruinose, villous down, then smooth 

 and broken into scales ; stem solid, hard, white, clothed as 

 far as the superior cortina with white scaly flocci, at length 

 corlina and scales disappear, otherwise curt, bulbous, or 

 elongated and conico-attenuated or cylindrical ; flesh of 

 pileus and stem white ; gills emarginate, almost free or 



