+Gills+ decurrent, tense and straight, crowded, narrow, yellowish, then
darker in color. It was growing on the ground in September.
[Illustration:
1. Boletus edulis.
2. Hypholoma perplexum.
3. Marasmius rotula.
4. Calostoma cinnebarinus.]
MUSHROOMS WITH PURPLE OR VIOLET-COLORED CAP.
+CORTINARIUS ALBO-VIOLACEOUS = white and violet.+
+The Violet-colored Cortinarius.+
+Cap+ whitish-violet, 2 to 3 inches broad, fleshy, convex, broadly
umbonate or gibbous, dry, beautifully silky and becoming even; flesh
juicy, a bluish-white color. +Stem+ 2 to 4 inches long, solid, firm,
bulbous, club-shaped, 1/2 to 1 inch thick. It is, both outside and inside,
of a whitish violet color, often fibrillose above, with the cortina, and
sometimes with the white veil, in the form of a zone at the middle.
+Gills+ adnate, 2 to 3 lines broad, somewhat distant, slightly
serrulated, of a peculiar ashy violaceous color, at length slightly
cinnamon from the spores. It has no odor and the taste is insipid.
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