120 Volvaria Annularia Pluteus. 



gloiocephala, D. C. P. 7 11 cm. campan. then exp. umb. 

 glutinous, sooty, edge striate ; g. reddish; s. 8 14 cm. solid, gla- 

 brous, whitish, tinged brown below ; volva adnate except a small free 

 margin ; sp. 1012 x 67. 



viperina, Fr. P. persistently conical, acute, grey ; g. tinged 

 yellow then flesh-colour ; s. solid, equal, closely sheathed by the thin 

 volva. 



media, Schum. P. 3 5 cm. exp. obtuse, viscid, silky when dry, 

 white or disc tinged brown ; g. rosy ; s. 4 7 cm. solid, equal, 

 glabrous, white ; volva lobed ; sp. 5 x 3'5. 



Intermediate in size between V, speciosa and V. parvula ; differs 

 from former in glabrous s. and volva, and from latter in solid stem. 



parvula, Fr. White. P. 1 -5 2-5 cm. campan. then plane, umb. 

 disc often tinged brown; g. flesh-colour; s. 2 3 cm. equal, subfistu- 

 lose, silky ; volva lax, usually 3 4 lobed ; sp. 5 x 3'5. 



var. Uloba, Cke. S. stuffed, pubescent ; volva bilobed. 



temperata, Berk. P. 1 1'fi cm. convex then exp. and umb., 

 disc tinged tawny, rest whitish, striate ; g. pale salmon ; s. 1 '5 2'5 cm. 

 whitish, volva rather large, lobed ; sp. 4 x 2'5. 



ANNULARIA, Schulz. 



laevis, Krombh. P. 46 crn. convex subumb. whitish ; g. free, 

 narrowed behind, becoming pale flesh-colour ; s. 4 6 cm. base swollen, 

 white, ring large, free ; sp. subgl. 78. 



[Fenzfii, Schulz. P. ovate then exp. sulphur then egg-yellow; 

 g. ventricose, rosy; s. soon hollow, subattenuated, sulphur below the 

 median ring. 



[alutacea, Pers. P. campan. obtusely umb. glabrous, tan; g. 

 crowded ; s. glabrous, ring lax. 



[xanthogramma, Ces. P. convex, umb. squjmulosely punctate 

 from the umbo, milk-white with densely crowded yellow striae ; g. 

 very broad, crowded ; s. stuffed, thin, obsoletely annulate below 

 middle. 



transilvanica, Schulz. P. campan. striate to vertex, whitish, 

 apex darker, edge lobed ; g. crowded, unequal ; s. hollow, paler than 

 p., flocculose, ring complete, membranous. 



PLUTEUS, Fr. 



* Cuticle of pileus fibrillose or floccose. 



cervinus, Schaeff. P. 4 9 cm. campan. exp. even, glabrous, then 

 broken up into fibrillose squamules which fall away, smoky with a 

 yellowish or fawn-coloured tinge; g. white then flesh-colour; s. 



