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Cortinarius sanguineus. (Edible.) 



Cap convex, then plane, or perhaps slightly umbonate or depressed, blood red, silky 

 or squamnlose; flesh paler reddish; gills crowded, entire, adnate, dark blood red; 

 stem stuffed or hollow, sometimes attenuated at the base, dark as the cap and 

 fibrillose, containing a red juice. 



Cap 1 to 1£ inches broad ; stem 2 to 3 inches long. 



This species is much less common in its occurrence than Cortinarius cinnamomeus, 

 but is distinctive because of its entire blood-red color. 



Cortinarius violaceus. (Edible. ) 



Cap convex, when expanded almost plane, dry with hairy tufts or scales, dark 

 violet; flesh, somewhat violaceous; gills distant, rather thick and broad, rounded or 

 deeply notched at apex of stem, narrowed at margin of cap, at first violaceous, later 

 brownish cinnamon; stem fibrillose, solid, bulbous, colored like cap. 

 Cap 2 to 4 inches broad; stem 3 to 5 inches long. (PI. IV, fig. 2; from M. E. Hard.) 

 This very attractive species is at first a uniform violet, but with age the gills assume 

 a cinnamon hue. The plants appear in woods and open places during the summer 

 and fall, generally solitary, but often in considerable numbers. It is esteemed as one 

 of the best edible species. 



NAUCORIA. 



Considerable variation is to be observed among species of the genus 

 Naucoria, but distinguishing generic characters are the more or less 

 fleshy cap, at first conical or convex, with involute margin, and the 

 cartilaginous stem, which is hollow or stuffed. The gills are free or 

 adnate, but never decurrent. 



Naucoria semiorbicularis. (Edible.) 



Cap hemispherical, convex to expanded, smooth, even, slightly viscid when moist, 

 corrugated or cracked when dry and old, tawny, rust colored; gills adnate, sometimes 

 notched, crowded, pale, then rust colored; stem tough, slender, straight, equal, 

 smooth, hollow, with a free fibrous tube, pale reddish brown, darker at the base. 



Cap 1 to 2 inches broad; stem 3 to 4 inches long. 



This is one of the most common and widely distributed species. It is among the 

 first to appear in the spring and continues until autumn, being particularly abundant 

 in wet weather. 



It is edible, easily cooked, and said to possess an excellent flavor. 



GALERA. 



The plants of the genus Galera are slender and fragile. The cap 

 is regular, thin, more or less membranaceous, conic or bell shaped, 

 often striate, especially when moist, margin straight, never incurved, 

 as in Naucoria. The gills are adnate or adnexed. The stem is some- 

 what cartilaginous, hollow, and polished. 



Galera tenera. (Edible.) 



Cap cone or bell shaped, rust colored when damp, ochraceous when dry, sometimes 

 atomate, hygrophanous, membranaceous, smooth, but striate, when damp; gills cin- 

 namon, broad, ascending adnate; stem slender, fragile, smooth, sometimes striate, 

 mealy above, paler than cap. 



