184 AGARICUS. 



Voivaria. 12 mm. (X in.) thick, white, solid, somewhat equal; volva lax. 

 Gills free, flesh-coloured. 



Its history is wholly that of A. bombycinus, but it is generally smaller. It 

 differs constantly, however, in the volva being less ample and persistent and in 

 becoming fuscous, in breadth, colour, and streaking of the pileus, and in the 

 gills being less purely flesh-coloured. 



In stoves, roadsides, &c. Rare. July-Aug. 



Spores 6-8 x 4 mk. B, Name volva, a wrapper ; furnished with a volva. 

 Bull, t. 262. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 260. Hym. Eur. p. 182. Fl. Dan. t. 1731. 

 /. 2. Vivian, t. 10. Ventur. t. 22. BarL t. 25. / 6-13. Fr. Nees in Act. 

 Nat. Cur. xvi. t. 7. C. Illust. PL 294. Form departing from the type Sow. t. 

 i. Berk. Out. p. 140. C. Hbk. n. 232. 



402. A. Loveianus Berk. Pileus 6 cent (2^ in.) broad, 

 white with a very slight shade of pink or cinereous, beautifully 

 silky, moderately fleshy, subtruncato-globose, then convex or 

 slightly expanded, margin involute. Stem 5 cent. (2 in.) long, 

 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) thick, white, solid, bulbous, attenuated up- 

 wards, closely fibrillose with a little matted down, very juicy ; 

 volva pure white with a little downy prominence within round 

 the base of the stem. Gills broad in front, quite free, somewhat 

 deliquescent, gradually pale pink. 



At first it appears like a small, smooth, white, round Bovista. Gregarious, 

 subcaespitose. 



Parasitic on A. nebularis. Very rare. Oct. 



It has been grown on A. nebularis by Worthington Smith. Spores minute, 

 elliptic, 3 mk. W.G.S. Name after Rev. R. T. Lowe. Berk. Out. p. 

 140. t. 7. f. 2. C. Hbk. n. 233. Illust. PI. 295. S. MycoL Scot. n. 230. 

 Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 182. 



403. A. Taylori Berk. Pileus 4-5 cent, (itf in.) high and 

 broad, livid, conico-campanulate, obtuse, striato-rimose from the 

 apex, thin, margin lobed and sinuated. Stem 6 cent. (2)4 in.) 

 long, 6 mm. (% in.) thick, pallid, solid, nearly equal, slightly bulb- 

 ous at the base ; volva date-brown, lobed, somewhat lax, small. 

 Gills uneven, broad in front, very much attenuated behind, rose- 

 colour. 



Pileus beautifully pencilled and cracked. The dark volva, campanulate pil- 

 eus, and uneven, attenuated gills are marked characters. The habit is rather 

 that of some Entoloma than of its more immediate allies. 



On the ground. Jersey, &c. 



Spores 6x 9 mk. W.G.S. Name after M. A. Taylor. B. & Br. n. 675. 

 Berk. Out. p. 140. C. Hbk. n. 234. Illust. PL 296. Saund. & Sm. t. 33. 

 /. i. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 183. 



