Green Webcap

In Great Britain and/or Ireland:
Foodplant / mycorrhiza / ectomycorrhiza
fruitbody of Cortinarius scaurus var. herpeticus is ectomycorrhizal with live root of Ectomycorrhizal broadleaved trees and shrubs
Remarks: Other: uncertain

Cortinarius herpeticus Fries, Epicr. Myc. 268. 1838
Pileus fleshy, convex, subexpanded, firm, 5-10 cm. broad; surface Dresden-brown (R) to tawny (R) or smoky-olive, then tawny-olive (R) or clay-colored, with a viscid or glutinous separable pellicle, shining when moist, opaque when dry, even, glabrous; margin at first incurved, thin; context thick, firm, abruptly thin on the margin, at first purplish, soon vinaceousgray (R), then whitish; lamellae rounded behind, adnexed-emarginate, close to crowded, not broad, at first dusky-slateviolet (R) or olivaceous, then tawny-olive (R) to clay-colored (R) or darker; stipe 4-8 cm. long, 1-2 cm. thick, slateviolet (R) to lavender-purplish, concolorous within, fibrillose from the whitish cortina, whitish on the bulb, equal above the marginatedepressed bulb, the bulb somewhat thicker; spores subellipsoid, inequilateral, distinctly tuberculate-punctate, 7-9.5 X 5-5.5 m, dark-rusty-brown under the microscope.
TypH locality: Sweden.
Habitat: On mosses, in moist coniferous forests, in the north and in the mountains. Distribution: Michigan and Washington; also in Europe.

Cortinarius scaurus Fries, Epicr. Myc. 312. 1838
Agaricus scaurus Fries, Syst. Myc. 1: 223. 1821.
Pileus fleshy, convex, obtuse or broadly subumbonate, at length plane or depressed, commonly small, the width much narrower than the length of stipe, 3-6 (-8) cm. broad; surface
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viscid, glabrous, even or short-striate on the margin in age, Dresden-brown (R) at first or darker, at length tawny (R), sometimes when dry spotted on the disk from drying gluten; margin at first incurved and slightly fibrillose from the citrine-yellow cortina; context moderately thick on the disk, thin on the margin, rather soft, moist, strongly tinged by the color of the pileus; lamellae adnexed, becoming emarginate, narrow, 3-5 mm., crowded, at first mignonette-green (R) then tawny-olive (R), transversely rivulose at times, the edge entire; stipe strict, 6-10 cm. long, 8-10 mm. thick at apex, equal or tapering upward from the rather narrow, hemispheric, marginate, subdepressed bulb, at first solid or firmly stuffed, becoming soft and spongy, innately fibrillose-silky, glabrescent, Russian-blue (R) within and without, except the , pallid or soon whitish base, fading and then shining, the bulb 15-25 mm. broad, at first covered by the straw-yellow (R) to citron-yellow (R) remnants of the universal veil; spores ellipsoid, subinequilateral, rough and subreticulate by interrupted ridges under highest magnification, 8.5-10 X 5-6 /a, rusty-brown under the microscope.
Type locality: Sweden.
Habitat: Under Douglas fir and hemlock, in mountain forests. Distribution: Olympic Mountains, Washington.