Cortinarius 



AGARICACE^: 



225 



continuous, not hygrophanous. Stem fleshy, somewhat bulbous 

 (Fig. 55-) 



Handsome and easily distinguished. Species 1035 1057 



Fig. 55- Cortinarius (Inolnnd) violaceus Fr. 



One-half natural size. 

 A, section of mature example ; B, young state. 



Gills at first white or pallid. 

 Gills ) F7and Stem violaceous. 

 Gills or Veil cinnamon, red or ochreous. 

 GUIs or Veil dark, fuscous, olivaceous. 



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 10461052 

 10531057 



1035. C. argutus Fr. (from the graceful habit ; argutus, graceful) a b. 

 P. expanded, gibbous then subdepressed, ochreous. St. solid, 



ventricose, fibroso-squamose, yellowish-white. G. adnate, 

 rounded, subdistant, white clay-colour. 

 Woods, amongst leaves, oak. Oct. 4$ x & X in. 



1036. C. argentatus Fr. (from the silvery white pileus and stem ; 



argentum^ silver) a b c. 



P. convexo-plane, broadly gibbous; marg. pale lilac then dun. 

 St. solid, slightly attenuate upwards, yellowish at base. G. 

 emarginate, crowded, becoming watery-cinnamon or sienna. 



Taste insipid; odour weak to strong, sweet, not fetid. Woods. Sept. -Oct. 

 5 X 3! X f in. Var. pinetorum Cooke, smaller and more graceful, odour 

 faint. Woods, pine. 



1037. C. opimus Fr. (from its obese appearance ; opimus, fruitful) a. 

 P. convexo-plane, hard, dry, wavy-deformed, rimoso-rivulose, 



white, covered with short ochreous down. St. solid, hard, 

 subturbinate, white-fibrillose with Co., base rooting. G. 

 emarginate, subcrowded, whitish then tan, 

 Solitary. Woods. Autumn. 4^ X i X ij in, 



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