142 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLumE 10 
lamellae rather crowded, free, not extending beyond the margin of the pileus, pale-flesh- 
colored; spores broadly ellipsoid, uninucleate, variable in size, 5-7 X 4-54; stipe equal or 
slightly thickened at the base, glabrous, solid, white, 5-6 cm. long, about 4 mm. thick; volva 
ruptured, membranous, white or grayish, persistent, irregularly split or lobed on the margin 
and forming a shallow cup at the base of the stipe. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Ohio. 
.Hasitat: On lawns and grassy places. 
DISTRIBUTION: Minnesota, Ohio, and Missouri. 
ILLUSTRATION: Hard, Mushr. f. 194. 
6. Volvariopsis Earleae Murrill, sp. nov. 2— - 
Pileus campanulate, not expanding, solitary, 2.5 cm. broad; surface white, slightly yel- 
lowish on the disk, finely fibrillose, dry, not striate, margin entire, concolorous, densely clothed 
with fine white hairs; lamellae free, crowded, rather narrow, white to salmon-colored; spores 
ellipsoid, smooth, rose-colored, 7~8 X 3.5-4 4; stipe cylindric, equal, smooth, white, solid, 2.5 
em. long, 5 mm. thick; volva very large, thin, membranous, persistent, light-brown, 3 cm. 
high, 1.5 em. broad. 
Type col!ected on a dead spot on a living oak trunk at Biloxi, Mississippi, September 2, 1904, 
Esther S, Earle 60 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
7. Volvariopsis concinna (Clements) Murrill. 
Volvaria concinna Clements, Bot. Surv. Neb. 5: 9. 1901. 
Pileus submembranous, expanded, not at all or only slightly umbonate, 0.5-1.5 cm. 
broad; surface smooth, pale-avellaneous; lamellae free, rose-colored; spores ovoid-ellipsoid, 
granular or guttate, smooth, rosy, 8-11 X 5-7 yw; stipe graceful, concolorous, 0.5-1.5 cm. long, 
1-2 mm. thick; volva minute, strictly appressed, limb obsolescent. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Nemaha River, Humboldt, Nebraska. 
Hasrrar: On moist, shaded ground and on flooded banks. 
DistRIBUTION: Nebraska and Kansas. 
8. Volvariopsis villosovolva (C. G. Lloyd) Murrill. 
Volvaria villosovolva C. G. Lloyd, Myc. Notes 31. 1899. 
Pileus convex, gregarious, 2 cm. broad; surface dry, silky-fibrillose, somewhat rimose, 
even, gray; lamellae free, remote; spores globose, 5 4; stipe pure-white, solid, slightly tapering 
upward, 4 cm. long, 4 mm. thick; volva globose, densely covered with long, white, mycelioid 
hairs, which disappear in the dried specimens. 
Type LocaLiry: Ohio. 
Hasitat: Fallen logs and rich earth in damp ravines in woods. 
DIstRIBUTION: Ohio and Virginia. 
ILLUSTRATION: C. G. Lloyd, Myc. Notes f. 2. 
9. Volvariopsis submyochroa (Clements) Murrill. 
Volvaria submyochroa Clements, Bot. Surv. Neb.5: 10. 1901. 
Pileus convex, almost plane, scarcely umbonate, subcarnose, 3-4 cm. broad; surface 
silky, shining, the umbo densely covered with larger silky fibrils, becoming innate toward the 
strongly striate margin, pale-avellaneous-murinous; lamellae free, remote, subcrowded, 
ventricose, at first flesh-colored, becoming isabelline; spores ellipsoid, smooth, uninucleate, 
6-7 X 4 u; stipe carnose, equal, solid, white, shining, farinose at the apex, 3-4 cm. long, 5 mm. 
thick; volva small, hirsute, 2-3-fid, concolorous. 
TyPE LOCALITY: University campus, Lincoln, Nebraska. 
HasiraT: On wet earth in a basement. 
DistRiBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
10. Volvariopsis Peckii (Atk.) Murrill. 
Volvaria Peckii Atk.; Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 48: 109 (11). 1897. 
Pileus thin, convex, about 7.5 cm. broad; surface glabrous, viscid, whitish, margin finely 
striate; lamellae rather crowded, thin, pale-fiesh-colored; spores subellipsoid, even, usually 
