294 • FUNGUS-FLOE A. 



colour; stem 1.1-2 in. long, 3-4 lines thick, attenuated 

 upwards, bulbous, fibrillose, white, solid ; volva with a free 

 margin, irregularly lobed, whitish ; spores elli^Dtical, smooth, 

 4-5 X 2 '5-3 fx; cystidia absent. 



Agaricus (Voharia) Loveianus, Berk., Outl., t. 7, fig. 2; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 113 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 295. 



Eemarkable in its habitat, being parasitic on CUtocybe 

 nehidaris. 



Parasitic on half-deca^-ed, and, in general, distorted 

 specimens of A. nehiilaris. 



Gregarious, subcaespitose. At first it appears like a small 

 smooth white round Bovista from the size of a pea to an inch 

 in diameter; it then becomes oblong, and the top of pileus, 

 which is at that stage flattish, bursts through, forming a 

 round aperture in the volva, which as the plant is fully 

 developed, is broken into three or four regular laciniae, with 

 a somewhat wrinkled surface, and the pileus, from subtrun- 

 cato-globose, becomes convex or slightly expanded, 2i in. 

 broad, moderately fleshy aud beautifully sill^y ; white with 

 a very slight shade of pink or cinereous ; margin involute. 

 Gills broad in front, quite free, leaving a space round the 

 stem, not i caching to the margin, subdelisquescent, gradually 

 assuming a pale pink tinge, under a good lens clothed with 

 fine minute transparent points like the Cop-ini. . 



Spores minute, elliptic, rose-coloured. Stem 2 in. high, 

 2—3 lines thick, white closelv fibrillose with a little matted 

 tomentum, very juicy, solid, bulbous. Yolva pure white, 

 with a little downy ])rominence within round the base of 

 the stem. Taste like that of A. cam^jestris. (Berk.) 



Volvaria Taylori. Berk. 



Pileus 14-2 J in. across, flesh at the disc, becoming thin 

 towards the margin ; conical and obtuse, then expanded, 

 livid, margin whitish, minutely striately cracked from the 

 apex ; gills free, from 1^ up to 4 lines broad, narrowest 

 behind, pale salmon -colour ; stem about 2 in. long, nearly 

 equal, smooth, whitish, solid, volva with the free margin 

 lobed, externally brown, small ; spores broadly elliptical, 

 smooth, 5x3* 5-4 /x ; cystidia absent. 



Ar/aricus {Voh-aria) Taylori, Berk., Outl., p. 140; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 113; Cke., Illustr., pL 29G. 



