18 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



like tlie pilens, splitting; campanulate, convex, then 

 expanded, "broadly and obtusely umbonate, even, glabrous, 

 not viscid, tawny-cinnamon when moist, ochraceous when 

 dry, margin faintly striate here and there ; gills adnate, at 

 length slightly rounded, always crowded, rather broad, at 

 first pallid then tawny cinnamon, shining; stem usually 

 2-3 in. long, i in. thick, fibrillose, rigid and rather cartila- 

 ginous outside, stuffed and spongy within, hence elastic, 

 every part white, conico-attenuated ; when growing on 

 rotten heaps of leaves in moist places, the stem is much 

 inflated, amongst damp moss it is longer and more slender ; 

 spores elliptical, 8-9 x 5 fi. 



Cm-tinarius (Ht/grocybe) armeniacus, Fries, Monogr., ii. 

 p. 94 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 274 ; Cke., Ulustr., pi. 793. 



In woods, especially of pine. 



Firm, bright, changeable, gills thin, at length shining. 

 White fibrils of the pileus soon vanishing, flesh readily 

 splitting, ochraceous when dry. (Fries.) 



Pileus 2-4 in. broad, campanulate, soon convex, expanded, 

 sometimes acutely umbonate, margin thin, patent, moist, not 

 viscid ; when dry tan, inclining to light red. Gills distinct, 

 2-3 lines broad, when young watery cinnamon. Stem 2-3 

 in. high, 2 lines to 2 in. thick, rather soft, sometimes above, 

 conic or subequal ; veil rather woven. (Fries.) 



Var. falsarius, Fries. 



Pileus yellow, white when dry. 



Cortinarius (Hygr.) damascenus. Fr. 



Pileus about 3 in. across, firm, flesh of disc thick, at the 

 margin very thin ; convexo-plane, orbicular, obtuse or very 

 obtusely umbonate, even, almost glabrous, usually torn into 

 minute squamules when dry, cinnamon-bay, disc often 

 darker ; gills adnate, rather distant, thin, distinct, narrowest 

 in front, opaque, pale cinnamon ; stem 3 in. long, ^ in. thick, 

 exactly cylindrical, and equal, hard, elastic, fibrilfose, white, 

 solid ; veil fibrillose, white, fugacious ; spores elliptical, 

 12 X 6 /i. 



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

 p. 95; Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 387; Cke., Hdbk., p. 274; 

 Oko., lUustr., pi. 856. 



In meadows and pastures. 



