84 AGARICINI. 



The species of Voharia are very closely allied; some appear in spring and 

 early summer, others later in the year ; thoy are almost tasteless, and none 

 are known to be edible. Volcaria corresponds with Amanita. — IF. O. S. 



Sect. 1. Silky or fibrillose. 



231. Agaricus (Volvaria) bombycinus. ScJicsff. " Silky Yol- 



varia." 



Pileus flesliy, soft, campanulate, then expanded, sub-umbonate, 

 silky, fibrillose, self-coloured ; stem solid, attenuated, smooth, 

 volva very large; gills free, flesh-coloured. — Fr.Epicr. p. 138. 

 Sch(pff.t.98. Krombh. t 23, f. 16-21. Berh. Outl.t.l f.l. Eng. 

 Fl. Y. p. 104t. Barla.t.26,f.l-6. 



On decayed wood. Rare. [S. Carolina.] 



Pileus 3-4 in., at first entirely enclosed in a slimy dark volva, at length 

 protruded, campanulate, dirty white, silky, with yellowish white narrow 

 silky scales, and marked frequently with a few dark blotches, the remains of 

 the volva, flesh whitish, firm, elastic, margin involute ; gills numerous, close, 

 ventricose, quite free, not reaching the margin, at first white, then rose- 

 coloured, with a tinge of yellow, at length deliquescent, tinged with umber. 

 Stem 2|in.high, ^ in. thick in the centre, firm, solid, thickest downwards, 

 the tough volva remaining like a cup at the base. — M.J.B. 



232. Agairicus (Volvaria) volvaceus. Bull. " Stove Volvaria." 



Pileus fleshy, soft, campanulate, then expanded, obtuse, virgate, 

 with adpressed black fibrils; stem solid, subequal ; volva loose; 

 gills free, flesh-coloured. — Fr.Ejjicr.p.lSS. Bull.t.2Q2. Fl. 

 Dan. 1. 1731,/. 2. Letell. t. 623. Sow. 1. 1. Eng. Fl. Y.p. 104. 

 Barla. t. 2b, f. 6. 13. Vent. t. 22. 



In stoves, by roadsides, &c. July. Aug. [S. Carolina.] 



Pileus 3-4 in. broad, obtuse, pallid, cinereous, with cinereous and black 

 streaks; gills obtuse behind, almost remote ; stem 3-5 in. high, ^ in. thick, 

 white ; gills adhering, almost delinquescent as in Coprinus. Spores "0002 X 

 •00013 in.— W. G. S. (PI. TIL, Jiff. 10, reduced.) 



233. Agaricus (Volvaria) Loveianus. Berk. "Parasitic 



Yol/aria." 



Pileus thin, fleshy, subtruncate, globose, then convex, obtuse, 

 white, silky ; stem solid, attenuated upwards ; volva loose, lobed ; 

 gills free, rose-coloured. — Berk. Outl.p 140, t. 7,/. 2. Fr. Epicr. 

 p. 139. Smith. Seem. Jour. Dec. 1867. Eng. Fl. Y.p. 104. 



Parasitic on J.. ne^M /am. Rare. 



Csespitose. At first appearing like a small round Bovisfa, from the size of 

 a pea upwards, then oblong, and the top of the pileus, which at that stage is 

 flattish, bursts through the volva, which is ultimately split into three or four 

 regular lacinise, with a somewhat wrinkled surface, and the pileus from sub- 



