My co logical Flora. 333 



Stem winding; spores kidney shaped with an apiculus at 

 both ends. 



On the ground in woods. October. 



596. CORTINARIUS (PHLEGMACIUM) FULGENS. Fr. 



"Shining Cortinarius." 



Very fleshy; flesh white; stipe solid, bulb depressed, 

 marginate. The whole stem wooly, which becomes ferru- 

 ginous when the spores drop. 



In woods. October. Not common. 



597. Cortinarius (Myxacium) elatior. Fr. 



"Tall Cortinarius." 



The gills in our plant are not only venose connected, but 

 strongly costate, every alternate one being dimidate and 

 excessively rugose. The characters seem almost sufficient 

 to base a new species on. 



In woods. October. Not common. 1877. 



598. Cortinarius (Myxacium) facicularis. n. sp. 



Tufted Cortinarius. 

 Caespitose, gregarious or solitary; pileus plain, fleshy, 

 viscid or glutinous when moist, smooth when dry, reddish 

 yellow, edge thin and dotted with a few fragments of the 

 veil; gills cinnamon, crowded, broadly attached, sometimes 

 sub-decurrent, easily separating from the hymenophora; 

 stipe white,, solid, fibrous, straight or flexurous, attenuated 

 downward. When old the flesh becomes yellowish white, 

 the stem brownish. 



Pileus ^ to 2 inches broad; stipe I to 2 inches long, 

 I to 3 lines think. 



On the ground in open places. October. 



