94 AMANITOPSIS. VOLVARIA 



and covered by the adnate volva, which has only a small, free, lax 

 margin, sometimes almost obsolete. Ring generally absent. Gills 

 white, truly adnate, crowded. Flesh white, buff beneath the epidermis. 

 Spores subglobose, 7-9 x 6-7 /A, with a large central gutta. Woods, 

 and heaths. July Oct. Uncommon, (v.v. 1 ) 



Spores pink. 

 Volvaria Fr. 



(Volvaria, having a volva, or wrapper.) 



Pileus fleshy, regular. Stem central. Volva membra naceous, free, 

 sheathing. Gills free. Spores pink, elliptical, or subglobose, smooth, 

 continuous. Growing on the ground, or on wood. 



*P. dry, silky, or fibrillose. 



214. V. bombycina (SchaefT.) Fr. (= Volvaria Loveiana Berk. sec. 

 Barb.) Bombycina, silky. 



P. 7-20 cm., white, becoming yellowish, fleshy, soft, globose, then 

 campanulate and convex, subumbonate, silky, becoming squamuloso- 

 villose, disc rarely becoming smooth. St. 7-15 x 1-2 cm., white, 

 attenuated upwards, base bulbous, often curved. Volva whitish, be- 

 coming discoloured, soon torn asunder, ample, 3-8 cm. broad, mem- 

 branaceous, lax, laciniate, somewhat viscid, persistent. Gills white, 

 then flesh colour, free, very crowded, ventricose, becoming toothed. 

 Flesh white, becoming yellowish. Spores pink, elliptical, 6-7 x 4-5 /u,. 

 Cystidia sparse, clavate, often slightly constricted near the apex, 

 5560 x 18//,. Smell and taste pleasant. On decayed wood, stumps 

 and sawdust. June Sept. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



215. V. volvacea (Bull.) Fr. (= Volvaria Taylori Berk. sec. Quel.) 

 Cke. Illus. no. 294, t. 294. Volvacea, having a volva. 



P. 7-10 cm., cinereous, black-streaked with adpressed fibrils, cam- 

 panulate, then expanded, obtuse. St. 512-5 x 1 cm., white, villose, 

 somewhat equal. Volva whitish, fuscous at the apex, oval, membra- 

 naceous, lax, often adpressed to the stem. Gills white, then flesh colour, 

 free, ventricose. Flesh white, floccose. Spores pink, elliptical, 6-7 

 x 4-5/A, 1-guttulate. Gardens, in stoves, roadsides. July Oct. 

 Uncommon, (v.v.) 



216. V. Loveiana Berk. (= Volvaria plumulosa (Lasch) Quel.; Vol- 



varia hypopitys Fr. sec. Quel. ; Volvaria bombycina Schaeff. sec. 



Barb.) Berk. Outl. t. 7, fig. 2. Rev. R. T. Lowe 



P. 57 cm., tvhite, with a very slight shade of pink, or cinereous, sub- 



truncato-globose, then convex, or slightly expanded, beautifully silky; 



1 At Sandringham, Norfolk, on the 30th October, 1899, specimens were found 

 both with a well-defined membranaceous ring and without any trace of a ring. 

 C. R. 



