The specimens in Figure 245 were gathered at Detroit, Michigan, and photographed by Dr. Fischer. They grow in groups in damp places, preferring hemlock trees.
Cortinarius croceocolor. Kauff. sp. nov.
Saffron-Colored Cortinarius. (Telamonia.)
Croceocolor means saffron-colored.
Pileus 3–7 cm. broad, convex then expanded, saffron-yellow, with dense, dark-brown, erect squamules on disk; whole surface has a velvety appearance and feel, scarcely hygrophanous, even; flesh of pileus yellowish-white, rather thin except on disk, slightly hygrophanous, scissile.
Gills cadmium-yellow (Ridg.), moderately distant, rather thick, emarginate, rather broad, 8–9 mm., width uniform except in front where they taper quickly to a point.
Stem 4–8 cm. long, tapering upwards from a thickened base, i.e., clavate-bulbous, 9–15 mm. thick below, peronate three-fourths of its length by the crome-yellow to saffron veil, paler above the veil, solid, saffron-colored within, hygrophanous, soon dingy; attached to strands of yellowish mycelium. Spores subspheroid to short elliptical, 6.5–8×5.5–6.5µ, echinulate when mature.
Found under beech trees in Poke Hollow near Chillicothe. Found in October.