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ota is represented by the handsome and somewhat rare 

 Caperata (Persoon), which appears solitary. Its pileus 

 is 3 to 4 inches broad, yellow, fleshy, but thin in pro- 

 portion to its size and robust stem, ovate, then expanded, 

 obtuse, viscid only when moist, wrinkled in pits at the 

 sides. (This is a marked feature.) The stem 4 to 6 

 inches long, more than one inch thick, solid, stout, cylin- 

 drical except for the tuberous base, shining, white, scaly 

 above the membraneous ring, and broken into squamules 

 at the apex. Gills adnate, crowded, somewhat serrated, 

 pale cinnamon colour. Pholiota is distinguished from all 

 other genera of the brown-spored series by the possession 

 of a distinct ring. 



Flammula is represented by one species — Flammula 

 alnicola marginalis Pk. found once in the rich season of 

 1904 and not observed since. 



The genus Cortinarius is distinguished especially by 

 the rusty ochreaceous colour of the spores, and by the 

 webby character of the veil. In the young plant fine 

 webby filaments stretch from the margin of the cap to 

 the stem, and in many species these are so numerous 

 that they at first conceal the gills, but they wholly or 

 partially disappear with advancing age and sometimes 

 leave but little trace of a collar on the stem. In some 

 instances a few filaments adhere to the stem, on which 

 the spores fall. In consequence of which a rusty stain 

 or band of brown is seen on the upper part of the stem. 

 In young plants the colour of the gills is generally unlike 

 that of the mature ones. Later on, the gills become 

 dusted by the spores and assume their colour, hence it is 

 that the gills of all the species are of a uniform colour, 

 and it is important to know the colour in the young state. 

 Of our ten species, the Cortinarius armillatus of Fries 

 is rare. Its pileus is 3 to 5 inches broad, red brick 

 colour, at first cylindrical, then campanulate, at length 

 flattened, dry, at first smooth, soon fibrillose. Flesh 

 pallid, stem 3 to 6 inches long, solid, firm, and remark- 

 ably bulbous. Bulb about an inch thick, villous and 



