Agaricaceee 



*Pileus dry, silky or fibril lose. 



Voivaria. V. bombyci'na Schaeff. bombyx, silk. PileilS 3-8 in. broad, wholly 

 ( Plate LIX.) white, fleshy, soft, at first globose, soon 



bell-shaped, at length convex, somewhat 

 umbonate, everywhere silky or, when older, 

 hairy-scaled, more rarely becoming smooth 

 at the vertex. Flesh not thick, white. 

 Stem 3-6 in. long, >2 in. thick or more at 

 the base, solid, equally attenuated from 

 the base to the apex, even, smooth, white. 

 Volva soon torn asunder, ample, 23 in. 

 broad, membranaceous, lax, slashed, some- 

 what viscid, persistent. Gills free, very 

 crowded when young, almost cohering, 

 ventricose, in groups of 24, then toothed, 

 flesh-colored. 



Ovate when young. According to some 

 becoming brownish. The stem is curved- 

 ascending on vertical trunks and straight 



on prostrate ones. Commonly solitary, sometimes however cespitose. 

 Stevenson . 



Spores elliptic, smooth, 6-7x4;* Massee; 6-8/u, Lloyd. 

 Considered edible. Stevenson. Edible. Curtis. 

 Very general but not common over the United States. It is a large 

 plant, from 3 in. upward across cap. Growing from wood, oaks, maples, 

 beech, etc. 



The writer has not been successful in finding it. Drawing, spore-print 

 and description received from H. I. Miller, Terre Haute, Ind. 



Upon such an authority as the late Dr. Curtis there is no doubt of 

 its edibility. 



V. volva'cea Bull. volva, a wrapper. PileilS 2-3 in. across. 

 Flesh white, thick at the disk, very thin elsewhere, soft, bell-shaped 

 then expanded, obtuse, grayish-yellow, virgate or streaked with ad- 

 pressed blackish fibrils. Gills free, about 2 lines broad, pale flesh- 

 color. Stem 2-4 in. long, about 4 lines thick, almost equal, white, solid. 



VOLVARIA BOMBYCINA. 



Natural size. 



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