cortina

Classical Latin had also a word cortina, meaning a caldron or round kettle.

P. 5-8 cm. obtuse, lilac, silky, then whitish or yellowish, flesh blue; g. clear blue then purplish; s. 7-12 cm. bulbous, juiceless, bluish from the cortina, inside the base white; sp.

Plant exhibiting the cortina unbroken, the extremities of its delicate arachnoid threads attached to cap and stem, respectively.Fig.

There is a partial veil in the form of a cortina.

The veil is white, silky, hairy, separating from the stem like a dense cortina, the threads stretched both above and below as shown in Fig.