Cortinarius 



AGARICACE^: 



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1056. C. arenatus Fr. (from the granulose pileus, as if sand-covered ; 



arena, sand) a b c. 



P. convexo-expanded, sometimes umbonate, pale yellowish- 

 fuscous; mid. umber, minutely squamulose. St. usually 

 attenuate upwards, pallid above, fuscous and dark squamulose 

 below. G. adnexo-emarginate, yellowish-cinnamon or salmon. 



Woods ; uncommon. Aug.-Oct. 2 x 2| x in. 



1057. C. penieillatus Fr. (from the pencilled pileus) a b. 



P. campanulato-convex, subumbonate, ferruginous-fuscous, 

 densely floccoso-scaly. St. stuffed, attenuate upwards, clothed 

 with ferruginous-fuscous, concentric sc. G. rounded-adnate, 

 dark brown. Flesh ferruginous-fuscous. 



Woods, pine. Sept.-Oct. ij x z\ x j\ in. 



SUBGENUS 4. DERMOCYBE. 

 (From the thinly fleshy pileus ; Gr. derma, skin, kube, a head.) 



Veil single, fibrillose, forming a zone in 1064. Pileus thin, 

 equally fleshy, at first silky, with innate villous down, becoming 

 smooth when old, dry, not viscid or hygro- 

 phanous. Stem hollow or stuffed, except 

 1058, often equal or attenuate, rigid, elastic 

 or brittle. Gills changeable in colour. 

 Flesh when moist watery or coloured. 

 (Fig. 56.) 



Polymorphous species defined with diffi- 

 culty owing to the changeable colour of the 

 gills. Species 10581085 



Gills at first whitish or pallid. 



10581063 



Gills at first violaceous, becoming 

 purple. 10641070 



Fig. 56. Cortinarius (Dermo- 



Stem and fibrillose Cortina coloured. <***) cinnamomeus Fr. 



.^,. 7/ v i . j A, section of mature example ; 



Gills bright cinnamon, red or B , young state. 



yellow. 10711080 One-half natural size. 



Olivaceous. Pileus not torn into scales. Veil dull pallid or 

 fuscous. 10811085 



1058. C. oehroleueus Fr. (from the yellowish-white pileus ; Gr. ochros, 



yellowish, leukos, white) a b. 



P. convex, gibbous. St. solid, ventricose or subbulbous, naked, 

 fibrillose above with Co., colour as P. G. adnexo- or adnato- 

 rounded, clay to ochreous or cinnamon. 



Taste none or bitterish, not unpleasant ; odour none or sweetish. Woods, 

 mixed ; rare. Sept. -Nov. 2 x if X f in. 



