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Cortinarius (Phleg.) sebaceus. Fr. 



Pileus 2^—5 in. across, flesh thin, equal, white, almost plane, 

 often very much waved, viscid, colour of suet, hecoming pale, 

 glabrous, but at first sprinkled with white meal; gills 

 emarginate, not crowded, connected by veins, 4 lines broad, 

 tan-colour, paler at the sides ; stem solid, stout, compact, 

 never bulbous, often twisted and compressed, 3-4 in. long, 

 sparingly fibrillose, pallid- white; spores pip-shaped, 9 X 7 yu.. 



Cortinarius (Phlegmaciwm) sebaceus, Fries, Monogr., ii. p. 7 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 238; Cke., lUustr., pi. 697. 



In mixed woods. 



Distinguished from C. halteatus by the general habit, paler 

 colour, and slender, fugacious veil. (Fries.) 



Cortinarius (Phleg.) lustratus. Fr. 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, equally fleshj', convex then expanded, 

 very obtuse, viscid, even, glabrous, pallid, becoming whitish 

 when dry ; flesh rather thick, white ; gills rounded behind, 

 almost free, very crowded, narrow, slightly discoloured ; 

 stem 1-2 in. long, 4^6 lines thick, equal, rarely attenuated 

 at the base, glabrous except from a few fibrils of the veil, 

 whitish, soft and spongy inside ; spores ochraceous. 



Cortinarius (Phleg.') lustratus, Fries, Epicr., p. 258 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 238 \ Cke., Illustr., pi. 799. 



Amongst grass in sunny places. 



Superficially resembling Entoloma prunuloides, but with, 

 ochraceous spores. Veil fibrillose, white, stretched from the 

 margin of the pileus to the stem. 



** Gills violet or purplisJi, then cinnamon. 



Cortinarius (Phleg.) varius. Fr. 

 Pileus 2-3 in. across, hemispherical then expanded, very 

 obtuse, regular, rather viscid, even, glabrous, clear tawny- 

 ferruginous, margin thin, at first incurved, with fragments 

 of the veil attached; flesh firm, white; gills emarginate, 

 thin, rather crowded, at first narrow and purplish-violet, 

 then broader and ochraeeous-cinnamon, always entire ; stem 

 bulbous but not in the least marginate, compact, 1^2J in. 

 long, 1 in. and more thick, white, adpressedly flocculose, the 

 superior veU pendulous. 



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