Specimens were identified by Professor Peck as C. cinnabarinus, as were those of the preceding. The variations are so great that I give this place as a variety.
C. sanguin´eus Fr.—sanguis, blood. Pileus 1–1½ in. broad, blood-color, becoming slightly pale when dry, fleshy, thin, convex then plane, obtuse, occasionally depressed, silky or squamulose. Flesh reddish, paler. Stem 2–3 in. long, 2–3 lines thick, stuffed then hollow, equal (rather attenuated than thickened at the base), here and there flexuous, with fibrils of the same color, almost darker than the pileus. Cortina arachnoid, fugacious, red blood-color. Gills adnate, crowded, 2–3 lines broad, quite entire, dark blood-color.
Wholly dark blood-color, the stem when compressed pouring forth bloody juice. Odor of radish. Thinner than species nearest to it. The spores are ochraceous on a white ground, somewhat ferruginous on a black ground. Fries.
Spores 6×4µ W.G.S.
North Carolina, Curtis; Massachusetts, Sprague, Farlow, Frost; Connecticut, Wright; New York, Peck, 23d Rep.
Edible. Leuba.
Cortinarius cinnamomeus.
Natural size.
C. cinnamo´meus Fr. Pileus 1–2½ in. across. Flesh thin, convexo-campanulate, umbonate, somewhat cinnamon color, silky squamulose with yellowish innate fibrils, becoming almost glabrous. Gills adnate, broad, crowded, shining, yellowish, then tawny-yellow. Stem 2–4 in. long, equal, yellow, as is also the flesh and the veil, hollow. Spores 7–8×4–5µ.