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OCHROSPOR.E 
Spores ochraceous, bright brown or bright rust colour. 
Gills dingy and ochraceous; brownish or reddish-brown at 
maturity ; never with a purple tinge. 
PAXILLUS 
(PaxilluSy a small stake or peg—from the form of the 
sporophore) 
P. involutus (from the involute pileus). Plate XL. 7. 
P. 2-5 in., depressed in the centre, smooth when dry, 
yellowish-brown; the margin involute and hairy. G. more 
or less decurrent, yellow, darker when bruised; sometimes 
forming elongated pores at the base; occasionally wholly 
porous. S. 1-2J in., thick, solid, firm, dull; yellow above, 
purplish below. In late sum. and aut. very common in 
woods and on old stumps. Sometimes attacked by a yellow 
mould, Hypomyces chrysospevmus. 
CORTINARIUS 
(From the cortina , or veil) 
A well-marked genus, containing a large number of 
autumnal, and with one exception, terrestrial species, pos¬ 
sessing in common the following features: (1) A cobweb¬ 
like veil; (2) persistent dry gills, often violet or purplish, at 
first becoming ferruginous or bright cinnamon at maturity; 
(3) bright rust - coloured spores. For the most part, 
frequenting woods and amongst grass under trees in 
fields. 
