48 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Cortinarius (Telamonia) rubellus, Cke., Grevilloa, xiv. p. 44; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 268 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 836. 



In Bwampy places. 



With somewhat the habit of a small form of C. armillatus, 

 but distinguished by the brighter-coloured pileus, and by 

 the fibrillose rings on the stem being dark ferruginous and 

 not vermilion. 



**** Stem becoming hrownish, veil faacous or dingy, gills darJc. 



Cortinarius (Tela.) bovinus. Fr. 



Pileus 3-5 in. across, flesh rather tliick at the disc, thin 

 towards the margin and often splitting, watery, pallid, 

 convex then expanded, obtuse or gibbous, even, glabrous, 

 with point-like depressions when old, fragile, soon glabrous, 

 opaque, hygrophanous, watery cinnamon, tawny when dry ; 

 gills adnexed, up to i in. broad, not veined at the sides, 

 rather distant, cinnamon, becoming dai k ; stem about 3 in. 

 long, conspicuously bulbous, base 2 in., apex 1 in. thick, 

 dingy pallid, girdled by a single brown zone formed by the 

 interwoven veil, scarcely peronate, brownish- cinnamon, 

 ■whitish above the brown zone, solid but very spongy within. 



Cortinarius (Telamonia) bovinus, Fries, Epicr., p. 297 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 269 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 822. 



In pine and mixed woods, &c. 



Cortinarius (Tela.) nitrosus. Cooke. 

 Stinking. Pilous 2-3 in. across, fleshy, rather thin, obtuse, 

 convex, then expanded, undulate at the margin, fawn-colour 

 or tawny, darker and brownish at the disc, soon breaking up 

 into minute, somewhat concentric, darker scales; gills rather 

 broad ; somewhat di-tant, einarginate, violet then watery 

 cinnamon; stem 2-3 in. long, ^ in. thick, nearly equal, 

 ochraceoue, darker at the base, paler than the pileus, marked 

 ■with concentric darker squamose bands, solid ; spores ellip- 

 tical, 12 X 4 /;l. 



Cortinarius (Telamonia) nitrosus, Cke., Grevillea, xvi. p. 44 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 269 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 837. 



In mixed woods. 



Flesh of pileus and stem pale brown. Distinguished by 

 the strong nitrous odour and the banded stem. 



