GENERA AND SPECIES OF MUSHROOMS 



This pretty, pale-violet species is common through most of 

 temperate North America and Europe. It is abundant 

 enough to use for food. Insects are very fond of it. When 

 dried specimens become so much paler that they are hardly 

 recognizable. Murrill. 



Cortinarius cinnamomeus ; cinnamon cortinarius. Plate 

 VIII, Species 41, 



On ground; in woods, under trees or in mossy swamps; 

 summer and autumn; edible. 



Cap thin; convex or expanded, sometimes with a knob at 

 the center (umbonate); dry; smooth, silky; flesh yellowish; 

 cinnamon brown; brownish-rusty or tawny-brown; i to 2 

 inches broad. Young plants show a web between the cap and 

 stem. 



Gills thin; close together; some shade of yellow when 

 young turning later to the rusty-ochraceous colors of the 

 spores; attached to the stem (adnate). 



Stem slender, rather long; cylindric; pithy (stuffed) or 

 hollow; often bent; silky; yellowish or colored like the cap; i 

 to 3 inches long. 



Spores ochre; elliptic; .0003 inch long. 



The cinnamon cortinarius quite variable in size, shape 

 and color. Like many flowering plants which have a wide 

 range and are not particular as to their habitat, this mush- 

 room is perplexing because of its variability. The fresh plant 

 often has a slight odor of radishes. 



Cortinarius collinitus; Cortinarius mucifluus; smeared 

 cortinarius. Species 42. Figure 15. 



On ground in thin woods ; August to September ; edible. 



Cap firm; thin; convex to expanded; smooth; glutinous 

 (sticky) when moist, shining when dry; yellow to golden- 

 yellow or tawny yellow; flesh white or whitish; spider-web-like 



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