This plant sometimes grows in tufts or clusters and bears a very close resemblance to Armillaria mellea, both in color and in the character of the scales of the pileus. _Peck_, 27th Rep. In thin woods and clearings, West Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. The whole fungus is edible when young, and ranks high in Cortinarii. When full grown the stem is hard. Cut in thin, transverse slices it cooks tender, but does not equal the cap. Like most of the Cortinarii it is found in the autumn until frost kills it. ** _Gills pinkish-brown then cinnamon._ (Plate LXXXVI.) [Illustration: CORTINARIUS SQUAMULOSUS.] =C. squamulo´sus= Pk. (Plate LXXXII, fig. 1, p. 306). =Pileus= thick, fleshy, convex, densely fibrillose-squamulose, cinnamon-brown, the scales darker. =Lamellæ= not crowded, deeply emarginate, pale pinkish-brown, then cinnamon-colored. =Stipe= thick, solid, shreddy, subsquamulose, concolorous, swollen at the base into a very large tapering or subventricose bulb. Height 4–6 in., breadth of pileus 2–4 in., stipe 6–9 lines thick at the top, 12–18 lines at the bottom. Borders of swamps in woods. Sandlake. August. Related to C. pholideus and C. arenatus, but distinct by the deep emargination of the lamellæ. It gives out a strong odor while drying. The color of the flesh is pinkish-white. _Peck_, 23d Rep. N.Y. This species was discovered in 1869, and had not since been observed by the writer until the past season. It is manifestly a species of rare occurrence. _Peck_, 28th Rep. Massachusetts, _Frost_; Wisconsin, Minnesota. Ranges from New England to Kentucky unchanged. _Morgan._ Specimens from E.B. Sterling, Trenton, N.J., September, 1897. Asylum grounds. Several found at Mt. Gretna, August and September, 1897. Solitary in oak woods, gravelly soil. _McIlvaine._ Sent to Professor Peck and identified. Specimens were much darker than Professor Peck’s plates. C. squamulosus is not attractive in appearance. The caps, only, are edible. Their consistency is very pleasant and flavor fairly good. (Plate LXXXVI_a_.) [Illustration: CORTINARIUS AUTUMNALIS.] =C. autumna´lis= Pk. =Pileus= fleshy, convex or expanded, dull rusty-yellow, variegated or streaked with innate rust-colored fibrils. =Gills= rather broad, with a wide shallow emargination. =Stem= equal, solid, firm, bulbous, a little paler than the pileus. =Height= 3–4 in., breadth of pileus 2–4 in. =Stem= 6 lines thick. Pine woods. Bethlehem. November. The plant is sometimes cespitose. The flesh is white. _Peck_, 23d Rep. N.Y. State Bot. Mt. Gretna, Pa., 1899. _McIlvaine._ Quality fair. Caps meaty. =C. ochra´ceus= Pk. (Plate LXXXII, fig. 3, p. 306.) =Pileus= fleshy, convex, at length broadly subumbonate or gibbous, smooth, even or obscurely wrinkled, pale ochraceous. =Stem= solid, fibrillose, ochraceous at the top, white below, gradually enlarged into a thick bulbous base.