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Tufted or subgregariotis. Pileus 1—2 inclies hroad. pnrple- 

 brown, shining with a satiny lTista"e, nmbonate, the nmbo 

 generally snbnmbUicate ; flesh moderately thick in the 

 centre. Gills very broad, at length snbferraginons, distant, 

 adnata for half their breadth. Stem 2i— i inches high, 

 '- in. thick, Tindnlated, silky, much paler than the pileus, 

 with a fe'w slight traces of the veil. Sowerby's plant and 

 that of Fries seem to be the same ; but if so. the former is 

 not, as Fries supposes, merely the young state, but arrived at 

 its full growth. (Berk.) 



Cortinarins (Tela, i quadricolor. Fr. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, rather fleshy, thin, conical then 

 expanded, umbonate, glabrous, at lengtli with depresie 1 spots. 

 pale yellow then tawny, shining when dry; flesh thin, 

 coloured like the pileus ; gills adnate, distmt, .3-4 lines 

 broad, but thin, margin white, serrate, dark violet or purjilish 

 cinnamon ; stem 3 in. long. 2—3 lines thick, equal, flcxuc'iis, 

 rather rigid, fibrilloso-striate from the adpressed veil, ■which 

 above collapses and fjrms an oblique white ring that 

 eventually disappears, stuffed then hollow; spores 10-11 X 

 6—7 /i. 



Coriinarius (Telamonia) quadricclor. Fries, Epicr., p. 295 ; 

 Cke. Hdbk., p. 266; Cke., lUustr., pi. 867. 



In beech woods, &c. 



Agreeing with C. hinnuleus in size, but differing in colour. 

 Gills sometimes violet. (Fries.) 



*•* Stem and veil red or ijelloir. Gills taicny or cinnamon, not 

 violet nor hecoming hroum. 



Cortinarins (Tela.) helvolus. Fr. 

 Pilens 2—3 in. across, flesh thin, convex then plane, obtuse 

 or obtusely umbonate, glabrous, even, dark tawny-ferrugi- 

 nous, yellowish when dry, becoming cracked, the margin at 

 first covered with the veil, regularly incurved ; gills dis- 

 tinctly emarginate, i lines broad, distant, thick, base rather 

 veined, opaque, tawny then tawny-cinnamon; stem variable 

 in length, in the largest form 6-8 in. long and up to 1 in. 

 thick, in the medium form 3 in. long, 4 lines thick, in the 

 smallest form 2 in. long, attenuated at the base, apex 2-;3 



