The stem is two to three inches long, at first stuffed, then hollow, nearly equal, squamose.
Found under beech trees. Only occasionally found here.
Cortinarius violaceus. Fr.
The Violet Cortinarius. Edible.
Figure 238.—Cortinarius violaceus. Two-thirds natural size. Caps dark violet. Stems bulbous. Gills violet.
Violaceus, violet color. The pileus is convex, becoming nearly plane, dry, adorned with numerous persistent hairy tufts or scales; dark violet.
The gills are rather thick, distant, rounded, or deeply notched at the inner extremity; colored like the pileus in the young plant, brownish-cinnamon in the mature plant.
The stem is solid, clothed with small fibres; bulbous, colored like the pileus. The spores are slightly elliptical.