24 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



veil fugacious, white; spores elliptical, a little attenuated 

 towards one or both ends, 12-14 X 0-7 /x. 



Gortinarius (Hygroeyhe) hicolor, Cke., Gievillea, xvi. p. 45 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 277 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 871, also pi. 820, f. *, 

 (as Gortinarius quadricolor.^ 



On the ground in mixed woods. 



Flesh of stem bright and purplish-violet at the base, 

 pallid above. (Cooke.) 



*** Stem and imperfect veil yelloio or rufous. 



Gortinarius (Hygr.) balaustinus. Fr. 



Pileus 1-2 i in. across, fleshy, convex then plane, obtuse, 

 moist, virgate with innate fibrils, glabrous, rufous-ferrugi- 

 nous, tawny brick-red and shining when dry ; gills adnate, 

 broad behind, rather crowded, ferruginous-rufous; tsteni 

 about 3 in. long, conically attemiated upwards, fibrillosely 

 striate, pallid, then tawny-ferruginous externally and in- 

 ternally, solid ; spoies obliquely elliptical, 8 X 4-5 fi. 



Gortinarius {Hygroeyhe^ balaustinus, Fries, Epicr., p. 307 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 277 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 794. 



In beech woods, &c. 



Size of Gort. suhferruginous ; veil becoming rufous. Stem 

 often incurved. Gills quite entire, at first deep cinnamon. 



In beech woods. Entirely rufous or rufo-ferruginous, 

 larger and more robust than other species of the subgenus. 

 Stem stuffed, clavato-bulbous, attenuated upwards, firm, 

 2-3 in. long, ?, in. thick, often curved, fibrillose, pale and 

 streaked with rufous when young, ferruginous outside and 

 inside when adult. Pileus rather fleshy, convex then ex- 

 panded, 3 in. broad, obtuse, almost glabrous, but under a 

 lens minutely fibrillose- virgate, moist when fresh (but not 

 viscid), reddish- ferruginous, i-eddish-tawny when dry, 

 shining, the thin margin expanded. Gills adnate, rather 

 crowded, broad, quite entire, at length rather distant, rufous, 

 (ferruginous-red), very broad behind. (Fries.) 



Gortinarius (Hygr.) colus. Fr. 

 Pileus 1-2 in. across, rather fleshy, campanulate when 

 young, then convex, obtusely umbonate or altogether obtuse, 

 symmetrical, rufous-brown, when dry paler, brick-red. 



