68 FUNGUS-FLOBA. 



]-)ileus from |-3-4 in. across; colour of pileus changeable, 

 depending on the more or less persistence of the down (fun- 

 diimental colour and veil constant in this species and its 

 allies) ; gills varying through blood-red, reddish cinnamon, 

 tawny-saffron, golden and yellow. (Fries.) 



Pileus 1-2 J- in. broad, convex or even obtusely conical 

 ■when young, becoming nearly plane, obtusely umbonate, 

 deep reddish cinnamon, often cracking at the margin, which 

 is ihin and sometimes fibrillose, smooth, somewhat fleshy. 

 FJcsh yellowish. Grills numerous, adnate, yellow cinnamon, 

 broad, margin often notched. Stem 2-3 in. high, 2-4 lines- 

 thick, equal, fibrillose, yellow, solid, hollow in old (?) large 

 plants. (Grev.) 



Var. croceus, Fries, Monogr., ii. p. 66 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 

 261 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 780a. 



Smaller than the typical form, pileus innately squamulose, 

 gills less crowded and shining, paler; in swamps the pileus 

 is sometimes fuscous olive, gills and stem olive, or stem 

 fuscous ; spores 6 x 3 /x. 



T'an semisanguineus, Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 370 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 261 ; 'Cke., Illubtr., pi. 779. 



Pileus 1^-2J- in. across, tawny, stem 2-3 in. long, yellow, 

 hollow ; gills narrow, blc)Qd-red or deep orange-brown with 

 a red tinge ; spores 7-8 x 4 /«. 



Cortinarius (Dermo.) croceo-conus. Fr. 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, flesh thin, conical then campanulate, 

 persi.stently acute, almost glabrous, tawny-cinnamon ; gills 

 adnexed, ascending; linear, crowded, cinnamon; stem 2-3 iu. 

 long, about 2 lines thick, flexuous, hollow. 



Cortinarius (Dermocyhe) croceo-conus. Fries, Monogr., ii, p. 

 67; Cke., Illustr., pi. 780b? 



In pine woods, amongst moss, &c. 



Gregarious. Stature of Cortinarius (Tela.) ilivpedius, but 

 allied lo C. croceuf, of which it may be a variety. (Fries.) 



The figure given by Cooke does not agree with Fries' de- 

 scription. The pileus is |-2 in. across, acutely umbonate, 

 yellow with a tawny tinge; stem 1^ in. long, yellow, as is 

 also the flesh, gills yellow then cinnamon. 



Gregarious subcaespitose. Equally allied to C. cinnamo- 



