Cortinarius cylindripes Kauffman 1905

Cortinarius cylindripes C. H. Kauffman, Bull. Torrey Club 32:
321. 1905.
Pileus fleshy, obtusely orbicular when young, then campanulate and expanded, rather small in comparison with the length of the stipe, 3-7 cm. broad; surface very glutinous at first and shining, later opaque, at the very first lavender, then yellowish with a violaceous tinge, at length brownish-ochraceous, somewhat stained by these colors at various stages, smooth, at length longitudinally wrinkled; margin incurved and pellucid-striate; context thick on the disk, thin elsewhere, violaceous, soon sordidwhite, the odor and taste slight; lamellae rather broad, 5-8 mm., adnate, emarginate, not attenuate in front, violaceous or lavender when young, becoming pale-cinnamon, not crowded, thin, the edge serratulate-flocculose and paler, somewhat wrinkled at the sides but not veined; stipe elastic, remarkably equal, 8-10 cm. long, 5-9 mm. thick, covered by a violaceous, glutinous universal veil, which remains as evanescent, adnate patches and at its junction with the partial veil as a slight annulus, smooth or fibrillosestriate at the apex, violaceous to dingywhite within, solid-stuffed; spores almond-shaped, rough-tuberculate, inequilateral, ellipsoid, 12-15 X 6.5-8 m, dark-brown.
Type locality: Ithaca, New York. Habitat: In frondose and coniferous forests.
Distribution: New England to Minnesota and Canada, and southward to North Carolina.