Morrisii is named in honor of George E. Morris, Ellis, Mass.
Pileus fleshy, except the thin and at length reflexed margin; convex, irregular, hygrophanous, ochraceous or tawny-ochraceous; flesh thin, colored like the pileus; odor weak, like that of radishes.
The gills are broad, subdistant, eroded or uneven on the edge; rounded behind, adnexed, pale-yellow when young, becoming darker with age.
The stem is nearly equal, fibrillose, solid, whitish or pale-yellow and silky at the top, colored like the pileus below and fibrillose; irregularly striate and subreticulate, the double veil whitish or yellowish-white and sometimes forming an imperfect annulus.
The spores are tawny-ochraceous, subglobose or broadly elliptic, nucleate, 8–10µ long, 6–7µ broad. Peck.
Pileus 3–10 cm. broad; stem 7–10 cm. long, 1–2 cm. thick.
They require moist and shady places and the presence of hemlock trees. They are found from August to October. The plants in Figure 242 were found near Boston by Mrs. E. B. Blackford.
Cortinarius armillatus. Fr.
The Red-Zoned Cortinarius. Edible.