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tut not rigid, even, glabrous, ferruginous or watery cinnamon, 

 more or less hygrophanous, when dry tawny, shining, or 

 becoming pale ; flesh splitting, dingy, pale ochraceous ; gills 

 very emarginate, 3 lines broad, more or less crowded, at first 

 pale, soon watery, then dingy ferruginous; stem in the 

 typical form solid, more or less bulbous, attenuated upwards ; 

 adpressedly fibrillose, externally rigid, subcartilaginous, 

 pallid, soft within and dull orange at the base; amongst 

 heaps of rotten pine leaves, stout, very much inflated, spongy ; 

 size variable, usually 3 in. long, -J in. thick ; veil entirely 

 fibrillose, marginal only, not peronate, very fugacious, spores 

 8-10 X 5-6 /x. 



Cortinarius (Hygrocybe) suhferruglneus, Fries, Monogr., ii. 

 p. 93 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 274 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 808. 



On the ground amongst leaves, &c., smell and taste 

 unpleasant. 



There are many forms distinct so far as colour is concerned, 

 but difficult to describe. Distinguished from C. armeniacus 

 in the opaque colour ; fleshy, obtuse pileus, the stem not 

 being elastic, and in the veil not collapsing. Differs from 

 C. hivelus in the simple veil, smooth hygrophanous pileus, 

 (watery ferruginous when moist, becoming ferruginous-tau 

 when dry.) (Fries.) 



Cortinarius (Hygr.) armeniacus. Fr. 

 Pileus 2—4 in. across, rigid, rather fleshy, flesh-coloured 



ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE GENUS CORTINARIUS. 



Fi?. 1, Cortinarius (FJilegmaciurn) purpurascens, Fr., entire fungus, 

 showing the cobweb-lite veil and the marginate bulb of the stem ; about 

 one-third nat. size; — -Fig 2, sect on of same, showing the fleshy pileus; 

 one-tliird nat. size; — Fig. 3, Curtinarins (^2Ii;xainurii) stillutUius,Vi. ; about 

 one-third nat. size; — Fig. 4, section of same; one-tliird nat. size; — Fig. 5, 

 Cortinarius (Hydrocyhe) oUusus. Fr. ; one-thud nat. size ; — Fig. 6, section 

 of same ; one-third nat. size ; — Fig. 7, Cortinarius {Inolomd) albo-violaceus, 

 Fr. ; about one-third nat. size ; — Fig. 8, section of same ; one-third nat. 

 size; — V\^.^, Cortinarius (Telamonia), gentilis,Fr.; one-third nat. size; 

 — Fig. 10, Cortinarius (JDermocyhe) decumbens, Fr. ; one-third nat. size ; — 

 Fig. n, section of same; one-tLird nat. size; — Fig. 11a, spores of same; 

 X 400 ; — Fig. 12, basidium and spores of Cortinarius (Inoloma) albo- 

 violaeeus, Fr. ; x 400 ; — Fig. 13, spores of Cortinarius (HyiirocyTje)ohtusiis, 

 Fr. ; X 400; — Fig. 14, spores of Cortinarius '^Fhlegmacium') yurpurascens, 

 Fr. ; X 400. 



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