100 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



In pine woods. 



Stem 4-5 in. long, -with tawny fibrils. Pileus 3 in. broad, 

 obtusely Timbonate, glutinous when moist, obsoletely virgate, 

 otthraceous. Appears to be allied to the Myxacium group. 

 (Flies.) 



*** Gills yellow, then cinnamon or ferruginous. 



Cortinarius (Phleg.) saginus. Fr. 



Pileus 4-5 in. across, fleshy, plano-convex, irregular, 

 wavy, viscid, yellow ; flesh soft, white ; gills truly decurrent, 

 4-5 lines broad, narrowed at both ends, dingy then pale 

 cinnamon, margin irregular ; stem solid, 3 in. long, 1 in. 

 and more thict, somewhat bulbous, fibrillose, yellowish, apex 

 naked ; veil fibrillose, fugacious, not very conspicuous. 



Cortinarius (Fhlegmacium) saginus, Fries, Epior., p. 260 ;. 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 240 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 703. 



In pine woods, &c. 



Allied to GorL laius, difiering in the fugacious ring and 

 yellow pileus. Gregarious, subcaespitose, large. 



Cortinarius (Phleg.) russus. Fr. 



Pileus 3-4 in. across, fleshy, convex then almost plane, 

 coppery-rufous, viscid, innately silky-fibrillose near the 

 margin ; gills adnate, crowded, about 3 lines broad, rusty- 

 rufous, connected by veins; stem about 3 in. high and 

 nearly 1 in. thick at the base, thinner upwards, adpressedly 

 fibrillose, paUid; veil fugacious; spores elliptical, 8-10 

 X 5 /A. 



Cortinarius (Phlegmacium) russus. Fries, Epior., p. 261 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 240 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 751. 



In moist woods. 



Habit of Gort. rufo-olivaceus. Stem somewhat ascending, 

 oblique, not tinged with violet, nor bulbous. Pileus not 

 repand, but often exoentric, 4 in. broad, coppery-rufous.' 

 Flesh soft, watery, then reddish-white. Taste not acrid, but 

 very nauseous. (iFries.) 



Keadily distinguished by the coppery-rufous colour of the 

 pileus; bitter, nauseous taste; and the flesh-tinged, soft 

 flesh. Stem stuffed then hollow, 3 in. long, scarcely 1 in. 

 thick, attenuated upwards, but not bulbous; often curved' 



