MYCOLOGICAL NOTES 
BY O. O. LLOYD. 
CINCINNATI, o. FEBl^UAHV, 1899. 
15—THE SMALL VOLVARIAS. 
Since the appearance of the “Volvae” we have received 
alcoholic specimens through the kindness of E. Bartholomew 
of the plant from which the description of V. striatula was 
drawn. It is entirely different from the little plant we have 
around Cincinnati, and which we had thought was the one 
covered by the description. We therefore have four at least 
(not three as stated in the Volvae) small species of Volvaria 
growing in the ground, which from our present knowledge 
of them we would class as follows: 
16—VOLVARIA PUBESCENTIPES, 
A small plant about 2^-4 cm. high, distinguished by the spreading hairs on 
the stipe. (Vide ‘‘Volvae” p. 11 and 17.) Evidently very close to V. piumulosa 
now considered in Europe a hairy form of parvula, (vide Pat. Tab. No. 333.) 
17—VOLVARIA STRIATULA. 
About the same size as the preceding and resembling most European 
plates of parvula iu shape and size, but distinguished from the plates in being 
striate, (vide “Volvae” p. 11 and 16.) 
18—VOLVARIA PUSILLA. 
Pileus explanate, white, fibrillose, dry, striate, center 
slightly depressed when mature. Gills white, becomingfflesh 
color, free, distant. Stipe white, glabrous. Volva split to the 
base into four, nearly equal, segments. Spores broadly ellip¬ 
tical (almost globose,) 5-6 me. 
This is our very smallest species not more than one-third the size of our 
other “small” species and rarely over a cm. high. It grows on the ground usual¬ 
ly among weeds, and requires close hunting to find it. We have met it several 
seasons. The volva almost equally four parted to the base resembles the petals of a 
cruciferous flower. We adopt Persoon’s name believing it is his species, and well 
named, and we think Fries is in error in refering Persoon’s plant to parvula. 
Cooke’s plate of V. temperata and Cordier’s plate of V. parvula we take for the 
same thing, and having no good photograph of the plant from nature we-repro- 
duced Cordier’s drawing which is an exact picture, size, shape, volva and all par¬ 
ticulars of the plant as we find it. 
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