23. C. Spragueii, B. and C.; very delicate; pileus campanulate,
then conical, tomentose, plicate; stem fistulöse, pale-
cinnamon; gills few, narrow.—Ann. of Nat. Hist. Oct. 1859.
In gardens. King’s Cliffe, July 2, 1859. Spores narrow,
subcymbiform, irro'o i^ch long. I received this originally from
New England. The difference between it and the last as
regards the spores is very striking.
24. C. hemerobins, F r .; pileus very delicate, ovate, nearly
even, expanded, campanulate, split, smooth, at length plicato-
sulcate ; top rather prominent; stem elongated, attenuated,
smooth, pallid; gills linear, pallid, then black, adnexed to an
obscure collar.—Bolt. t. 31.
On roadsides. Rare.
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3. BOLBITIUS, Fr.
Gills becoming moist; trama obsolete; spores coloured.
1. B. Boltonii, F r .; pileus slightly fleshy, viscid, membranaceous
at the margin, at length sulcate; disc darker,
somewhat depressed; stem attenuated, yellowish; ring fugacious,
at first flocculose; gills somewhat adnate, livid-yellow,
then brown.—Bolt. t. 149.
On dung. Pileus yellow, turning pale. Spores brownish.
I am not acquainted with this species.
3. B. fragilis, F r .; pileus submembranaceous, viscid, pellucid
; margin striate; disc subumbonate; stem attenuated,
naked, smooth, yellow; gills attenuato-adnexed, yellow, then
pale-cinnamon.—Sow. t. 96.
On dung. Common. Pileus yellow, then whitish.
3. B. titubans, F r .; pileus membranaceous, flattened out,
pellucid, striate halfway up; stem slender, straight, shining,
yellow; gills slightly adnexed, pallid, salmon-coloured.—Row.
t. 128.
Amongst grass. Common. Pileus yellow, but soon presenting
the salmon-tint of the gills.
4. B. tener, B . ; very delicate; pileus white, moist, conical,
elongated; stem white, bulbous at the base; gills attenuated
behind, nearly free, salmon-coloured. (Plate 12, fig. 3.)
Amongst short grass on a lawn. Apethorpe. At first
looking like a dry specimen of A. tener.
4. COBTINAEIUS, Fr.
Gills memhranaceous, persistent; trama floccose. Veil consisting
of arachnoid threads. Spores rusty-ochre.*
Subgenus 1. Pulegmacium.—Pellicle of pileus viscid when moist.
Veil, and consequently the stem from which it springs, dry.
1 . C. (Pblegmacium) eaperatus, F r .; pileus fleshy, ovate,
then expanded, obtuse, moist, incrusted with superficial white
flocci; stem stout, smooth, squamulose at the top from the
reflected, membranaceous r ing ; gills adfixed, separating, serrate,
crowded, clay-colom-ed.— Bo/, of East. Borders, with a fig.
In woods. Very rare. Berwickshire. Lancashire, Be«. Bf. if.
Higgins. A large and noble species, of a beautiful yellow.
2. C. (Phlegmacinm) varins, F r .; pileus compact, hemispherical,
flattened, even, viscid; margin smooth; flesh white;
stein short, solid, closely flocculose, dirty-white; gills crowded,
emarginate, quite entire, purplish, then pallid-cinnamon.—
Schmff. t. 42.
In woods. Not common. King’s Cliffe.
* The colours o f Cortinarii are not only very fugitive, but they change greatly
aocording to the condition of tho atmosphere. Those, therefore, which are
mentioned, except sometliing is said to the contrary, belong only to the young
plant before it has been exposed to weather. The colour of the spores in most
o f the species is that o f peroxide of ir o n ; in a very few exceptional cases it
is o f a bright tawny.
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