98 AGARICACE^E Volvaria 



of 153. They are almost all tasteless or insipid; 455 is fetid and 

 said by Letellier to be poisonous. None are known to be edible. 



Volvaria agrees in structure with Amanitopsis, Acetabularia and 



Chitonia. Species 449 457 



Pileus dry, silky or fibrillose. 449 453 



Pileus more or less viscid, smooth. 454 457 



449. V. bombyeina Quel. (from the silky pileus ; bombyx, silk) a b c. 

 P. broadly umbonate, white or pale brownish. St. colour as P. 



Vo. large, lax, ochre-sienna or umber. G. becoming rufous. 

 Solitary or csespitose. Decayed wood, stumps, hollow trees, ash, elm, birch. 

 June-Sept. 8& X 7 X f in. 



450. V. volvaeea Quel. (from the large volva) a b c. 



P. campanulate, subumbonate, black-fibrillose on a brown ground 

 or brown-nbrillose on a white ground. St. white. Vo. large, 

 lax, umber. 



Gregarious. Reputed poisonous. Stoves, on tan, roadsides. 5 x 7 X J in. 

 Sowerby has modelled an example of this with a large annulus. 



451. V. Loveiana Gill, (after the Rev. R. T. Lowe) a b c. 



P. convex, white-silky. St. white. Vo. lax, whitish. G. thick. 

 Gregarious, subcaespitose. On 153 and other species of Clitocybe. 2% x 2 x 

 fin. 



452. V. Taylorii Gill, (after Michael A. Taylor) a b c. 



P. expanded, subumbonate, rimose, whitish ; marg. faint umber. 



St. white. Vo. lax, small, white or umber. G. sinuato-free, 



irregular, attenuate near St. 

 Odour none. On the ground, gardens. July-Oct. 2 X 2 X J in. Variable 



in size, sometimes as small as 453 and smaller than 457. 



453. V. TEMPERATA Sacc. (from its growing in temperate green- 



houses) a b. 

 P. campanulate, umbonate, pulverulent, pale ochreous-sienna ; 



marg. striate. St. white. Vo. ample, faintly ochreous. 

 Greenhouses. Feb. f X X ^ in. 



454. V. speeiosa Gill, (speciosus, handsome) a b c. 



P. campanulate, subumbonate, whitish, greyish or brownish; 



mid. darker. St. attenuate upwards, white. Vo. bulb-like, 



white. 

 Odour strong. Roadsides, rubbish heaps, manure heaps; rare. June-Oct. 



4 X 6 X fin. 



455. V. gloioeephala Gill, (from its glutinous pileus; Gr. glows, 



sticky, kephale, a head) a b c. 

 P. convex, subumbonate, whitish; marg. striate, greyish or 



brownish; mid. darker. St. subfibrillose, pale brownish or 



tawny. Vo. bulb-like, adpressed, brown. G. serrulate, becoming 



reddish. 

 Probably poisonous. Taste disagreeable ; odour strong, offensive, like putrid 



broad beans. On the ground. June-Nov. 4^ x 6f X \ in. Fragments 



of Vo. often left on P. 



