RHODOSPOR^: 
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ANNULARIA 
(From the annulate stem) 
A. lsevis (lavis, smooth—the usual state of the pileus). 
P. 3 in., subumbonate, glabrous, white. G. free, somewhat 
crowded ; white at first, then salmon colour. S. 5-6 in., 
slender, attenuated upwards, smooth, white. R. somewhat 
distant, large. A rare species. In aut., amongst grass in 
bushy places. 
VOLVARIA 
(From the volva) 
V. Loveiana* (after the Rev. R. T. Lowe). Plate XI. 7. 
P. 2-3 in., silky, white. G. free, white, then pale salmon 
colour. S. if-2 in., attenuated upwards, bulbous, closely 
fibrillose, solid, white. V. with a free margin, irregularly 
lobed, white. A rare species of remarkable habitat, living 
as a parasite, on half-decayed and more or less distorted 
specimens of Clitocybe nebulavis. Worthington G. Smith 
remarks that it also occurs on other species of Clitocybe, 
and that a mycelium similar to that which gives rise to this 
species occurs also on the pileus of Tricholoma gvammopodium. 
V. parvula ( parvulus , small). Plate XLII. 6. 
P. up to 1 in., campanulate, then plane and umbonate, 
dry, silky, white, the umbo darker. G. free, crowded, white, 
becoming pale flesh colour. 5 . i-ijin., stuffed, then hollow, 
white. V. large, lax, usually divided into three or four 
equal segments. In the var. bilob a the stem is stuffed, 
never fistulose, and the volva is bi-lobed. In greenhouses, 
gardens, and fields. Frequent. A very neat little species. 
* Thus named by Berkeley, but it was originally and very appropri¬ 
ately described by Knapp as Agaricus surrectus, who figured it in his 
delightful “ Journal of a Naturalist.” 
