Under balsam trees in open places. Catskill mountains. October.
The stem appears as if sheathed. In some specimens the stem is short and rapidly tapers from the base to the top. Peck, 23d Rep. N.Y. State Bot.
Many of the species were found by the writer in mixed woods among leaves at Mt. Gretna, Pa., September, 1898. Specimens were identified by Professor Peck.
The gills are bright yellow when young. Cap smooth, innately fibrillose, not viscid. Spores light brown.
Tasteless; smell faint. Good consistency. A fair flavor develops in cooking.
Cortinarius annulatus.
Natural size.
C. (Inoloma) annula´tus Pk. Pileus broadly convex, dry, villose-squamulose, yellow. Flesh yellowish. Lamellæ rather broad, subdistant, adnexed, yellow. Stem solid, bulbous, somewhat peronate by the yellow fibrillose annular-terminated veil. Spores broadly elliptical or subglobose, 8µ long.