Volvaria. 119 



VOLVARIA, Fr. 



* Pileus dry, silky, or fibrillose. 



bombycina, Schaeff. P. 9 18 cm. campan. then exp. and 

 subumb. white, silky-fibrillose ; g. flesh-colour; s. 7 14 cm. solid, 

 attenuated, glabrous, white, volva ample ; sp. 6 7 x 4. 



[regia, Fr, P. convex then exp. white or with a reddish tinge, 

 glabrous, dry ; g. crowded ; s. white or tinged yellow, solid, glabrous ; 

 ring persistent ; volva white, large. 



volvacea, Bull. P. 5 7 cm. campan. then exp. obtuse, grey or 

 greyish- yellow, virgate with adpressed black fibrils ; g. flesh-colour ; 

 s. 5 9 cm. solid, subequal, white, volva large ; sp. 6 8 x 3'5 4. 



[arenaria, Otth. P. campan. exp. urnb. silky fibrillose, whitish 

 brown, disc darker, dry ; g. crowded, near to stem, subventricose ; s. 

 rather shining, whitish, base thickened; volva mostly adherent, 

 laciniate, brownish. 



Loveiana, Berk. P. 5 7 cm. convex, obtuse, white, silky ; g. 

 pinkish-salmon ; s. bulbous, narrowed upwards, solid, white, volva 

 irreg. lobed ; sp. 4 5 x 3. 



Parasitic on Clitocybe nebularis. 



Taylori, Berk. P. 3 5 cm. conical then obtuse, livid, edge paler, 

 striately cracked ; g. narrowest behind ; s. 4 5 cm. equal, solid, 

 whitish ; volva lobed, brownish ; sp. 5 x 3'5 4. 



Differs from V. volvacea by gills being narrowed behind, and 

 small brown volva. 



[grisea, Q. P. flexuous, silky-villose ; g. crisped, hoary ; s. short, 

 tomentose ; volva trilobed ; sp. 8 9. 



[murinella, Q. P. campan. villose, grey ; g. remote, ventricose ; 

 s. slightly striate, white ; volva 34 lobed, white ; sp. 6 8 x 34. 



[hypopi.tn.ys, Fr. Small. Shining white. P. conical then campan. 

 dry, silky; g. white then flesh-colour; s. solid, equal, pubescent, 

 adpressedly silky; volva bilobed ; sp. 6 8 x 4. 



* * Pileus more or less viscid and {one species 

 excepted) glabrous. 



[rhodomela, Lasch. P. campan. then exp. somewhat sooty, 

 squamulose, viscid ; g. reddish ; s. solid, attenuated, delicately 

 floccoso-downy then almost glabrous ; volva small, floccose. 



speciosa, Fr. P. 7 12 cm. P. soft, campan. then exp. obtuse, 

 glabrous, viscid edge even, white or disc greyish ; g. flesh-colour ; s. 

 10 18 cm. subbulbous, solid, attenuated, villose, white; volva lax, 

 villose; sp. 1416x8. 



[theiodes, Saut. P. campan. then exp. citrin, mealy, with deci- 

 duous squamules, broadly umb. edge sulcate ; g. free, broad ; s. 

 hollow, fuscous. 



