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slender and donttfnl. The Scotch specimens, if true, ■were 

 l)j- no means typicaL (Cooke, j 



Cortinarins (Phleg.) emoUitns. Tt. 



Pileus o—i in. across, fleshy, lax, rather wavy, minntelr 

 fibrilloso - Tirgate, Yiscid, tawny, ochraceons - yellow and 

 shining when dry, margin thin, incurved j stera li— 2 in. 

 ling, J in. and more thick, stuffed, nneqnaL, siarcely bulbous, 

 <jf-en compressed, fibrilljse, sift, white then tinged yellow, 

 veil fugacious; gills emarginate, up to -I in. broad, rather 

 distant, smooth, sjft, white then ochraceous. 



Cyrtinarlus (Fhlegmaeium ) emollitus. Fries. Epicr., p. 269 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 24ij ; Cte., Illustr., pi. 727. 



Amongst grass in beech wo-jds, &c. 



Often caespitose, very variable, but very distinct from 

 neighbouring species in the acrid taste ; snow-white very 

 soft flesh ; soft, imperfectly hollow stem ; somewhat deformed 

 pileus, and rather distant gills. 



A small form occurs with a slender stem, pileus plane, 

 fragile. 



Cortinarins (Phleg.) cristaliinns. Fr. 



Pileus about 3 in. across, equally fleshy, but thin, expanded, 

 glabrous, visoid, shining, hygrophanous, disc watery-palUd, 

 towards the margin SLl\ery -white, shining, when dry entirely 

 whitish ; gills emarginate, thin, 3 lines broad, crowded, tan- 

 colour; stem 3 in. long, 4 lines thick, hollow or attenuated 

 at the base, fragile, fibrillose, whitish straw-colour ; spares 

 8 X 4au 



Cortinarins (Phlegmaciurn) crislallinus. Fries, Monogr., L 

 p. 30; Cke., Hdbk., p. 246; Cke., Dlnstr., pi. 725. 



In mixed woods, amongst leaves. 



Taste very acrid. A form occurs having the pileus yel- 

 lowish-white, stem slightly viscid, giUs rather decurrent. 

 (Fries.j 



Cortinarius (Phleg.) decolorattis. Fr. 



Pileus 2—4 in. across, flesh thin, equal, campannlate then 

 convex, obtuse, soft, glabrous, tan-colour, disc darkest, corru- 

 gated when old, viscid ; gills emarginate, adnate, or decur- 

 rent, depending on the situation and mode of growth, slightly 

 crowded, 3 lines broad, tan-colour then cinnamon ; stem 



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