The Smeared cortinarius is much more common than the Violet cortinarius and has a much wider range. Both the cap and stem are covered with a viscid substance or gluten which makes it unpleasant to handle. The cap varies in color from yellow to golden or tawny-yellow and when the gluten on it has dried it is very smooth and shining. The flesh is white or whitish. The young gills have a peculiar bluish-white or dingy-white color which might be called grayish or clay color, but when mature they assume the color of the spores. They are sometimes minutely uneven on the edge. The stem is straight, solid, cylindrical and usually paler than the cap. When the gluten on it dries it cracks transversely, giving to the stem a peculiar scaly appearance. The cap is 1½-3 in. broad, and the stem 2–4 in. long, and ¼-½ in. thick. The plant grows in thin woods, copses and partly cleared lands and may be found from August to September. It is well to peel the caps before cooking, since the gluten causes dirt and rubbish to adhere tenaciously to them. _Peck_, 48th Rep. N.Y. State Bot. In 41st Rep. N.Y. State Mus. Nat. Hist., p. 71, Professor Peck describes a closely allied species, C. muscigenus, n. sp., “separated by its more highly-colored pileus, striate margin and even, not diffracted-squamose stem.” Prof. L.B. Mendel gives the following analysis: “Young specimens gathered in New Haven early in November, 1897, gave: Water 91.13% Total solids 8.87 Total nitrogen of dry 3.63” substance Edible. _Cooke._ In appearance the Smeared cortinarius does not appeal to be eaten. Neither does an eel. But peeled both are inviting. Raw, the caps of this fungus have a strong woody smell and taste. This is somewhat subdued by cooking. I have found the plant in West Virginia, Pennsylvania and North Carolina, often among the leaves in mixed woods, but it prefers a goodly supply of light and the freedom of open places. It is often gregarious, sometimes tufted. =C. io´des= B. and C. =Pileus= 1½-2 in., convex, at length plane, viscid, firm, violet-purple. =Flesh= white, thick. =Veil= fugacious, spider-web. =Stem= 2–3 in. long, 1½ in. thick, solid, thickened below. =Gills= violet, at length cinnamon, ventricose, adnate, sub-emarginate, irregular, sometimes forked. _B. and C._ This is a small but beautiful species, the pileus, lamellæ and stem being of a bright-violet or purplish-violet hue. The spores are subelliptical, generally uninucleate, 10×6µ. _Peck_, 32d Rep. N.Y. State Bot. The pileus in this species is sometimes spotted with white. The bulbous white stem is adorned with lilac-colored fibrils. _Peck_, 35th Rep. N.Y. State Bot. Sparingly found among roots at Mt. Gretna, Pa., September, 1897–1898. The caps are fairly good. INOLO´MA. (_Gr_—fiber; _Gr_—a fringe.) * _Gills violaceous then cinnamon._