294 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



colour ; stem 1 J-2 in. long, 3-4 lines thick, attenuated 

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

 margin, irregularly lobed, whitish ; spores elliptical, smooth, 

 4-5 x 2 5-3 p. ; cystidia absent. 



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

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



Eemarkable in its habitat, being parasitic on Clitocybe 

 nebularis. 



Parasitic on half-decayed, and, in general, distorted 

 specimens of A. nebularis. 



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 ful]y 

 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, 2^- in. 

 broad, moderately fleshy and beautifully silky ; 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 Coprini. 



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

 2-3 lines thick, white closely fibrillose with a little matted 

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

 with a little downy prominence within round the base of 

 the stem. Taste like that of A. campestris. (Berk.) 



Volvaria Taylori. Berk. 



Pileus H-2^ 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 /j. ; cystidia absent. 



Agaricus (Volvaria) Taylori, Berk., Outl., p. 140; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 113; Cke., Illustr., pi. 296. 



