. Student's hand-book of mushrooms of America edible and poisonous . s is thinly fleshy, dry, andat first downy, becoming smooth; the veil single and fibrillose; fleshwatery, colored when moist, stem equal or attenuated downwards; (5)Telamonia, in which the cap is moist, at first smooth or dotted with thesuperficial fragments of the veil, the stem ringed below, or peronatelyscaly from the remains of the universal veil; (6) Hydrocybe, in which thecap is thin and moist, not viscid, smooth, or covered with superficial whitefibrils ; stem rigid, not scaly, veil thin, occasionally collapsed in an i
. Student's hand-book of mushrooms of America edible and poisonous . s is thinly fleshy, dry, andat first downy, becoming smooth; the veil single and fibrillose; fleshwatery, colored when moist, stem equal or attenuated downwards; (5)Telamonia, in which the cap is moist, at first smooth or dotted with thesuperficial fragments of the veil, the stem ringed below, or peronatelyscaly from the remains of the universal veil; (6) Hydrocybe, in which thecap is thin and moist, not viscid, smooth, or covered with superficial whitefibrils ; stem rigid, not scaly, veil thin, occasionally collapsed in an irreg-ular ring. These subdivisions have been designated as tribes by somebotanists and subgenera by others, etc. .To the divisions Inoloma andPhlegmacium, respectively, belong the two species illustrated in Plate XII. Plate XII. Figs. 1 to 4.—Cortinarius (Inoloma) violaceus Fr. Violet Cortinarius. Edible. Cap fleshy, at first convex, then nearly plane, dotted with hairy tufts orscales, margin at first involute, color purple or dark violet, flesh soft, Plate T Taylor, del EdibleFigs I to 4 Cortinarius (Inolomal violaceus, Linn. ]i»lcl Cortinarius! Phlegmacium | coerulescems, Fries. 19 purplish; gills distant, broad, adnate, somewhat rounded near the stem,at first purplish violet, changing to au ochraceous or brownish cinnamoncolor as the plant matures ; stem solid, somewhat bulbous at the base,purple ; cortina or veil white or tinged with violet, sometimes bluish. This is a handsome species, and though it is somewhat rare in manylocalities, its pretty and unusual coloring does not allow it to be easilyoverlooked. It is edible, arid has a mushroom} taste when raw. Agari-cus nudus Bull, a purple species with white spores, is sometimes con-founded with it. There are other purple species of Cortinarius not sopleasant to the taste, which bear some resemblance to C. violaceus. Thespecimens figured in Plate XII were gathered near Dedham, Mass., onopen gro
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