Cortinarius armillatus.
C. armilla´tus Fr.—armilla, a ring. (Plate [LXXXII], fig. 5, p. 306.) Pileus 3–5 in. broad, red-brick color, truly fleshy, but not very compact, at first cylindrical, soon campanulate, at length flattened, dry, at first smooth, soon innately fibrillose or squamulose, flesh dingy pallid. Stem 3–6 in. long, ½ in. thick, solid, firm, remarkably bulbous (bulb 1 in. thick, villous, whitish) and fibrillose at the base, when old striate and reddish-pallid, internally dirty yellow. Exterior veil woven, red, arranged in 2–4 distant cinnabar zones encircling the stem; partial veil continuous with the upper zone, arachnoid, reddish-white. Gills adnate, slightly rounded, distant, at first pallid cinnamon, at length very broad (½ in.), dark ferruginous, almost bay-brown.
Odor of radish. A very striking species. From the pileus not being hygrophanous, at the first smooth and at length torn into fibrils or squamulose, it might easily be taken for a species of Inoloma. The cortina itself is paler than the zones. It differs from all others in these zones. The rings are usually somewhat oblique. Fries.
Professor Peck in the 23d Rep. N.Y. State Cab. Nat. Hist., describes the American species as follows:
“Pileus fleshy, thick, convex or subcampanulate, then expanded, minutely squamulose, yellowish-red. Lamellæ not close, broad, slightly emarginate, whitish-ochraceous, then cinnamon. Stipe stout, solid, fibrillose, whitish, girt with one to four red bands, bulbous.
“Height 4–6 in., breadth of pileus 2–4 in., stipe 4–8 in. thick.
“Woods. North Elba. August.
“A large and noble species. The margin of the pileus is thin and sometimes uneven; the upper band on the stem is usually the brightest and most regular. The pileus is not distinctly hygrophanous.”
Spores 10×6µ Cooke.