VOLVARIA. 297 



In pastures, also in pine and beech woods. 



Intermediate in bize between V. speciosa and F. parvula. 

 Differs from the former in the glabrous stem and volva ; and 

 from the latter in the solid stem. 



Allied to F. speciosa, but much smaller and entirely white. 

 Stem scarcely 2 in. long, glabrous. Pileus thin, 1-1 1 in. 

 across. Quite distinct from F. parvula, with which it is 

 frequently confounded, in the solid, glabrous stem, and the 

 viscid, convexo-plane pileus. Gills pretty rosy flesh-colour. 

 (Fries.) 



Varying greatly in size and form, from \ in. to 2 in. or 

 more broad, subcarnose or submembranaceous, plane, sub- 

 hemispherical or subcampanulate,subumbonate, silky, slightly 

 viscid, white with a brownish or yellowish tinge in the 

 centre. Gills rather thick, broad, quite free, projecting in 

 the young state beyond the edge of the pileus, often rugged, 

 when old rose-coloured, sub-elliptic. Stem nearly equal or 

 slightly thickened below, 1-2 in. high, 2 lines or more 

 thick, nearly smooth, silky under a lens, solid, juicy, fur- 

 nished at the base with a volva divided into 3 or more lobes, 

 vaginate and close or slightly spreading, nearly smooth and 

 white, or furnished with small flat brownish scales, sometimes 

 entirely dark brown. (Berk.) 



Volvaria temperata. Berk. (fig. 10, p. 236.) 



Pileus about | in. across, flesh very thin, convex then ex- 

 panded, umbonate, disc very pale tawny, margin whitish and 

 striate, pulverulent ; gills free, nearly 1 line broad, ventri- 

 cose, pale salmon-colour ; stem up to 1 in. long, \ line thick, 

 whitish, minutely fistulose ; volva large in proportion, free, 

 margin lobed, tinged with brown ; spores elliptical, smooth^ 

 4 x 2 5 fji ; cystidia absent. 



Agaricus (Volvaria) temperalus, Berk. & Broome, Ann. Nat. 

 Hist., no. 1757 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 114; Cke., lllustr., pi. 300A. 



On soil in greenhouses, &c. 



Readily distinguished by its very small size. 



