Cortinarius gentilis (Fr.) Fr. 1838

Cortinarius punctatus Fries, Epicr. Myc. 299. 1838
Pileus slightly fleshy, campanulate-convex, umbonate or subumbonate, 2-5 cm. broad; surface glabrous, even, punctate, hygrophanous, vandyke-brown (R) when moist, fading to cinnamon-buff (R); context thin and equal except at the umbo, concolorous, the odor none; lamellae broadly adnate, rather broad, thick, distant, cinnamon at first, then hazel (R) to vandyke-brown (R), the edge entire; stipe equal or slightly enlarged toward base, 5-7 cm. long, 3-6 mm. thick, concolorous or paler, fuscescent, becoming darker downward, innately flbrillose-silky, stuffed, fuscescent within, white-mycelioid at base; cortina pallid, fuscescent, evanescent; universal veil thin, fuscescent, more or less obsolete; spores broadly ellipsoid or subovoid, coarsely tuberculate, 10— 12(— 13) X 6-8(-9) n, dark-rusty-brown under the microscope.
Type locality: Sweden.
Habitat: Under spruce and firs, in mountain forests.
Distribution: Colorado; also in Europe.

Cortinarius gentilis Fries, Epicr. Myc. 297. 1838
Pileus slightly fleshy, conic-campanulate at the very first, then campanulate and subexpanded or repand in age, usually abruptly umbonate, sometimes obtuse, the umbo small and acute, or prominent and more or less obtuse, 2-5 cm. broad; surface entirely glabrous when moist, silky-shining when dry, hygrophanous, Sudan-brown (R) to cinnamon-rufous (R) when moist, changing markedly on losing moisture and becoming wax-yellow (R) to amber-yellow (R) or paler, even; margin at first incurved and silky-cortinate or spotted by the yellowish shreds of the veil; context thin and equal except the umbo, scissile, hygrophanous, concolorous, fading, the odor none or slightly radishy, the taste mild; lamellae broadly adnate, 6-9 mm. broad, subdistant at first, finally very distant, thick and venose-connected, cinnamon (R) at first, then darker, antique-brown (R), the edge flocculose; stipe 5-9 (-10) cm. long, 3-5 (-7) mm. thick, strict at first, then flexuous and undulate, equal or tapering upward or downward, sometimes subradicating, slender, stuffed, then hollow, the cortex cartilaginous, naked at the apex, fibrillose-silky elsewhere, cingulate in the middle or zoned with amber-yellow (R) zones, antique-brown (R) when moist, concolorous within; universal veil thin, interwoven, yellowish to yellow-ocher; spores broadly ellipsoid, slightly rough, 8-9 (-10) X 6-7 p, yellow under the' microscope.
Type locality: Sweden.
Habitat: On deep moss or debris, tinder spruce and fir, in the higher mountains. Distribution: Colorado; also in Europe.