90 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



veil slightly fibrillose, fugacious ; spores broadly pip-shaped, 

 10-12 X 8 /x. 



Gortinarius (Myxaciurn) nitidus, Fries, Epicr., p. 376 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 378 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 1191. 



In beech woods, &c. Suboaespitose. 



Stem tough, not bulbous ; pileus sometimes white. 



** Gills at first violet, hlue, or reddisli. 



Gortinarius (Myx.) delibutus. Fr, 



Pileus 2-3 in. across; flesh thin especially towards the 

 margin, convex then expanded obtuse, at length more or less 

 depressed, yellowish, covered with viscid hyaline gluten, 

 silky-fibrillose after the gluten has disappeared ; gills adnate, 

 becoming rounded or slightly emarginate behind, somewhat 

 distant, 2-3 lines broad, margin pale, serrulate, often crisped, 

 at first blue or bluish- violet, then cinnamon-tan; stem 

 stuffed or hollow above, slightly and equally attenuated 

 upwards from the small sub-bulbous base, 2-4 in. long, 

 3-4 lines thick, elastic, viscid up to the scanty, fibrillose 

 fugacious cortina; even, glabrous, shining and yellowish- 

 white when dry, apex snow-white ; spores elliptical, 

 8x4^. 



Gortinarius (Myxaciurn) delibutus, Fries, Monogr., ii. p. 41 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 250 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 743. 



In grassy places. 



Small, soft, white within. Gills broad, plane, obsoletely 

 emarginate, with a decurrent tooth. 



Var. elegans. Pileus and stem quite glabrous, yellow, 

 viscid, shining when dry ; flesh yellowish-white, gills pale, 

 crowded. 



Gortinarius (Myx.) salor. Fr. 



Pileus about 2 in. across, obtusely conic or parabolic when 

 young, soon campanulate and at length expanded with a 

 broad umbo formed from the fleshy disc, very thin towards 

 the margin, small in proportion to the stem, grey, bright 

 violet towards the inflexed margin, at length all one colour, 

 «ven, glabrous, slightly viscid, fibrillose about the margin 

 when dry; flesh contiguous, white, then yellowish; gills 

 adnate, distant, distinct, 2-3 lines broad, quite entire, at first 



