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in the firmer, somewhat club-shaped stem, flattened pileus 

 (not gibbons), at first white then yellowish, broader gills at 

 length somewhat oohraceous. (Fries.) 



Cortinarius (Dermo.) anomalus. Fr. 

 Pileus 1-2 in. across, flesh thin, remarkably convex then 

 expanded and gibbous, smoky then with a rufous tinge, 

 hoary from evanescent fibrils, at length yellowish, not 

 hygrophanous ; flesh white when dry, not splitting; gills 

 sometimes adnate, at others emarginate, with a deourrent 

 tooth, thin, crowded, more or less tinged violet or greyish- 

 purple, at length cinnamon ; stem stuffed then hollow, 2-3 

 in. long, 3 lines thick, attenuated, slightly peronate, 

 fibrillose or rather squamulose, violet above, whitish down- 

 wards, at length becoming pale and yellowish; spores 

 broadly elliptical, 8-9 X 7 /i. 



Cortinarius {Dermocybe) anomalus. Fries, Monogr., ii. p. 62 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 259 ; Cke., Illustr., p. 776. 

 In woods. 



Gregarious, small, flesh watery, veil coloured, gills some- 

 times ema,rginate, sometimes decurrent, violet, purplish, or 

 grey, alwaj's thin and narrow. In pine woods it is sometimes 

 more slender, stem thin, equal, glabrous, and flexuous. 

 (Fries.) 



Pileus 1-2 in. broad, very obtuse, sometimes broadly but 

 very flatly umbonate, tinged at flrst wath violet, minutely 

 silky so as to present a white satiny appearance, gradually 

 changing to ochraceous or slightly tawny ; flesh thick, 

 except at the extreme margin, which has often traces of the 

 arachnoid veil dusted with the sporules. Gills close rounded 

 behind, at first violet, at length pale ferruginous. Stem 

 2J- in. high, f in. thick, in tlie middle subbulbous, more 

 or less tinged with violet, solid, fibrillose with more or 

 less distinct transverse closely-pressed brownish scales, 

 which originate in the veil; the top is adorned with the 

 descending fibres of the veil, which form a spurious ring 

 dusted with the sporules, and beneath this there is some- 

 times another red circle which is the true ring. (Berk.) 



Cortinarius (Dermo.) spilomeus. Fr. 

 Pileus about 1 in. across, convex then expanded, gibbous, 

 almost glabrous, not hygrophanous, rufous or tan-colour; 



