A treatise on the esculent funguses of England / containing an account of their classical history, uses, characters, development, structure, nutritious properties, modes of cooking and preserving, etc.

by David Badham

Esculent species: none.

Series 3. CORTINARIA.[139]

Sporules reddish-ochre; veil arachnoid.

Subgenus 17. Telamonia.[140]

Esculent species: none.

Subgenus 18. Inoloma.[141]

Bot. Char. Veil fugacious, marginal, consisting of free arachnoid threads; stem solid, bulbous, fibrillose, more or less diffused into the pileus, fleshy; pileus fleshy, convex when young, then expanded, fibrillose, or viscid, regular, juicy; gills emarginato-adnexed, broad, changing colour; colour of the gills or pileus violet.

Large autumnal funguses growing on the ground.

Esculent species: Ag. violaceus.