_General Information_: This fungus is easily recognisable by the strongly inrolled, woolly margin of the cap and yellow-brown gills which are easily separable from the cap-flesh. _P. rubicundulus_ P. D. Orton is similar but grows under alder and has yellow gills unchanging when handled and dark scales on the cap. _P. atrotomentosus_ (Fries) Fries and _P. panuoides_ (Fries) Fries both grow on coniferous wood and have smaller spores; the former is recognised by the dark brown to almost black shaggy stem and the latter by the shell-shaped cap devoid almost completely of a stem. _Illustrations_: F 41c; Hvass 189; LH 185; NB 115⁸; WD 70². [Illustration: Plate 5. Fleshy fungi: Spores brown and borne on gills] ~Cortinarius pseudosalor~ J. Lange _Cap_: width 60-125 mm. _Stem_: width 15-25 mm; length up to 180 mm. _Description_: Cap: bell-shaped or bluntly conical only slightly expanding with maturity, smooth or wrinkled at centre but often furrowed at the margin, slimy, brown with a distinct olive flush when in fresh condition and becoming ochraceous brown and shiny when dry. Stem: usually swollen to some degree about the middle, slimy particularly towards the base, whitish throughout when young except for a faint amethyst or violaceous flush in the lower part; as the slime dries the stem becomes shiny and the outer surface breaks up into fibrillose scales or scaly, irregular ring-zones. Flesh: lacking distinct smell, white with ochraceous flush in the cap, white in the stem, thick and soft in the cap but fibrous in the stem. Gills: adnate, broad, rather thick, frequently veined and distant, ochraceous brown and finally deep rust-brown. Spore-print: rust-colour. Spores: long, slightly almond-shaped in side view, finely warted throughout and not less than 12 µm in length (13-14 × 7-8 µm). Marginal cystidia: ellipsoid or club-shaped, hardly different from the surrounding undeveloped basidia. Facial cystidia: absent. _Habitat_ & _Distribution_: Found on the ground in copses and woods especially those containing beech. _General Information_: Recognised by the conical, grooved cap and the slimy spindle-shaped stem with a distinct violaceous flush; this fungus is often misnamed _C. elatior_ Fries but this is a much less common fungus. There are several closely related fungi, but these grow with other tree-species and need much more experience to distinguish one from the other. _C. pinicola_ P. D. Orton is one such species growing in the litter under _Pinus sylvestris_, Scots Pine; this species is fairly common in the remnant pine woods of Northern Scotland. The large size, sticky or glutinous cap and stem indicate that this fungus belongs to _Cortinarius_, subgenus _Myxacium_. _Illustrations_: Hvass 145; LH 162; NB 119; WD 60¹. [Illustration: Plate 6. Fleshy fungi: Spores brown and borne on gills] General notes on Cortinarii