OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 
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KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Whole plant near dark blood red, medium sized. 
Spores 6.5 to 9.5 x 4.S to 7.2 p 150. CortiiuniM ( Derma- 
eybe) saiigwineus. 
l’ileus large, dark green. Gills yellow at first. Stem 
yellowish. Spores 8 to 13 x 5 to 6.5 g 151. C. ( D.) austro- 
venetiut. 
Pileus large, dark brown. Gills when young yellowish 
becoming buckthorn brown. Stem yellowish. Spores 
9 to 11 x 5 to 7,5 y 152. C. ( D.) S'ub- 
ciima/inowus. 
150. Cortinarius (Dermocybe) sanguineus (Waif.) Fr. (L., sangudneus. 
bloody)! — Pileus up to l]in. (B cm.) or more, broadly conical to conico-convex, 
then convex, obtuse or gibbous, innately fibrillose, the edge sometimes slightly 
sulcate, or silky shining to coarsely rugose, dark blood red (browner than 
Morocco Red, i.j near Morocco Red with the centre Cflaret Brown, i. ; or near 
Brazil Red, i.). Gills adnate to adnato-adnexed, or slightly sinuate, moderately 
close to crowded, dark red becoming rusty red (near Burnt Sienna, u., becoming 
Sanford’s Brown, ii., or near Morocco Red or Brazil Red). Stem 2 to 34in. 
(5 to 8.7 cm.), moderately stout to rather slender, swollen below or nearly equal, 
fibrillose, slightly hollow, blood red (near Burnt Sienna, tinged with Morocco 
Red), paler above. Veil fugacious, arachnoid, reddish. Flesh thiekish below the 
umbo, thin externally, pallid reddish or slightly yellowish red, not exuding a 
juice when pressed. Spores elliptical, pear-shaped or rather rotund, oblique, 
sometimes slightly rough yellow brown, 6.5 to 9.5 x 4.8 to 7.2 y. South Aus- 
tralia — Mount Lofty, National Park. June to August. 
Our plants seem to differ from British ones in the pileus not being shaggy or 
squamulose, in the base being sometimes rather swollen and in having no 
appreciable juice. 
151. Cortinarius (Dermocybe) austro-venetus Clel. (L., cluster , the south part 
of the world, but here in reference to Australia; vemlus, sea-coloured). — Pileus 
up to Bin. (7.5 cm.), convex, then nearly plane, more or less gibbous, with subin- 
nate villous down, dark green (near Olive Citrine, xVi., near Yellow Ochre, xv.), 
darker in the centre (Light Brownish Olive, xxx.). Gills adnate to slightly 
sinuate, moderately close, Olive Ochre (xxx.), near Yellow Ochre (xv.). Stem 
tip to Bin. (7.5 cm.), rather stout (up to liu., 1.2 cm., below) to Blender, slightly 
attenuated upwards, fibrillose, hollow, pallid tinged with the colour of the gills. 
Flesh thick over the disc, very attenuated towards the edge. Veil fugacious. 
Spores oblique, dull brown, 9.5 to 13 x 5.5 to 6.5, sometimes 8 x 5 p. South 
Australia — Mount Lofty, National Park, Kuitpo. June to August. 
152. Cortinarius (Dermocybe) subcinnamoneus Clel. ( Siibpinnamnncus , here 
near to the species C. cimuimoneus (L.) Fr.). — Pileus up to 2lin. (6.2 era.), 
convex, gibbous, then expanding, sometimes slightly upturned and wavy, some- 
times irregularly plane, minutely fibrillose or subsquamulose, near Snuff Brown 
(xxix.) passing into Bister (XXIX.) in the centre, near Sudan Brown (in.), 
Argus Brown (in.) or Hazel (xiv.), later Burnt Umber (xxvin.) becoming nearly 
black in tlie centre, Saceardo 's Umber (xxix.) when young. Gills sinuate to 
arlnexed, moderately close, fin. (10 mm.) deep, when young Mustard (xvi.) 
becoming near Buckthorn Brown (XV.), or Sulphiue Yellow (lV.) in single 
lamellae to Aniline Yellow (IV.) in masses, or Olive Ochre (xxx.). Stem up to 
Bin. (7.5 cm.), slender or stout (.{ to Jin., 6 to 18 ram.), slightly bulbous or 
slightly attenuated downwards, somewhat fibrillose and striate, markedly hollow, 
with tints of Naples Yellow (xvi.) or pallid with brown tint's. Flesh yellowish, 
heaped up under the umbo, gradually attenuated outwards. Cobweb veil pale 
yellowish. Spores irregularly elliptical or oblique, with one end more pointed, 
slightly rough, yellowish brown, 9 to II x 5 to 7.5 y. Gregarious. South 
Australia — Mount Lofty. June. 
The whole plant becomes a very dark brown when dried. The species seems 
closely allied to the European C. c-iimumoneus (L.) Fr., differing in a darker 
pileus, in the gills being usually definitely 1 hough often slightly sinuate and in 
the decidedly larger spores (C. einnamoneus in Rea’s British Bnsidiomycetes, 
6 to 8 x 4 to 5 |u). 
