illose, and equal.

Cortinarius _collinitus_, Smeared Cortinarius, and Cortinarius
_cinnamomeus_, with its variety semi-sanguinea, have also been tested,
and found edible. The first of these is somewhat common. The plants when
fresh are covered with a glutinous substance, and this should be removed
before cooking. Cap smooth under the glutinous coat, light brown or
tawny yellow in color, flesh white; gills whitish or light gray when
young, cinnamon-hued in the matured plant. Stem solid, nearly equal,
cylindrical, yellowish, and somewhat scaly. C. _cinnamomeus_ belongs to
the division Dermocybe. The cap is thin at first, silky with innate
fibrids, becoming smooth, and varies from light brown to a dark cinnamon
color. The gills are yellowish, then cinnamon; stem downy or silky,
yellow. The variety _semi-sanguinea_ has the lamellae red, almost as in
the preceding species.

C. (Phlegmacium) _varius_, "Variable Cortinarius," edible, has a compact
fleshy viscid, even cap, brownish in color, gills at first violet,
changing to cinnamon, stout solid stem, white or whitish, adorned with
adpressed flocci, flesh white.

Cortinarius (Telamonia) _armillatus_ Fries is given in M. C. Cooke's
list of edible Cortinarii. Cap fleshy but not thick, fibrillose and
slightly scaly, bright bay color, thin uneven margin; stem solid, dingy,
rufescent, showing irregular red zones or bands elongated and slightly
bulbous at the base; gills distant, broad, pallid in color at first,
changing to dark cinnamon. C. (Telamonia) _haematochelis_ Bull. (edible),
somewhat resembles the former in color and size, though not so bright a
brown. Cap thin, silky-fibrillose; gills adnate, narrow and crowded,
light cinnamon; stem long, solid, dingy, with a reddish zone.

C. (Hydrocybe) _castaneus_ Bull., _Chestnut Cortinarius_ (edible), is
found in woods and gardens. The plants of this species are usually
small. Cap at first campanulate, expanding, sometimes slightly umbonate
in the centre, chestnut color; gills ventricose, crowded, purplish,
changing to rust color; stem short, hollow or stuffed, cartilaginous,
equal, pallid, reddish brown, or tinged with violet; veil white.

_Subgenus Collybia_ Fries. Cap at first convex, then expanded, not
depressed, with an involute margin; gills reaching the stem, but not
decurrent, sometimes emarginate; stem hollow, with cartilaginous bark of
a different substance from the hymenophore, but confluent with it; often
swollen