Part 48 (1/2)
RHODOSPORAE.
A. _Gills free._
=Volvaria=. Volva present; ring absent.
=Annularia=. Volva absent; ring present, often falling away.
=Pluteus=. Volva and ring both absent.
B. _Gills adnexed, rarely adnate._
=Entoloma=. Gills sinuate behind; edge of pileus incurved when young; stem fibrous or fleshy.
=Nolanea=. Stem cartilaginous; pileus campanulate, edge straight and adpressed to stem when young.
=Leptonia=. Stem cartilaginous; pileus convexo-plane, edge incurved at first; gills soon separating from stem.
C. _Gills decurrent._
=c.l.i.topilus=. Stem central, fibrous; edge of p. incurved at first.
=Eccilia=. Stem central, cartilaginous; pileus umbilicate.
=Claudopus=. Stem excentric, minute, or absent. Species minute, membranaceous.
VOLVARIA, Fr.
* _Pileus dry, silky, or fibrillose._
=bombycina=, Schaeff. P. 9-18 cm. campan. then exp. and sub.u.mb. white, silky-fibrillose; g. flesh-colour; s. 7-14 cm. solid, attenuated, glabrous, white, volva ample; sp. 6-7 4.
[=regia=, Fr. P. convex then exp. white or with a reddish tinge, glabrous, dry; g. crowded; s. white or tinged yellow, solid, glabrous; ring persistent; volva white, large.
=volvacea=, Bull. P. 5-7 cm. campan. then exp. obtuse, grey or greyish-yellow, virgate with adpressed black fibrils; g. flesh-colour; s. 5-9 cm. solid, subequal, white, volva large; sp. 6-8 3.5-4.
[=arenaria=, Otth. P. campan. exp. umb. silky fibrillose, whitish brown, disc darker, dry; g. crowded, near to stem, subventricose; s. rather s.h.i.+ning, whitish, base thickened; volva mostly adherent, laciniate, brownish.
=Loveiana=, Berk. P. 5-7 cm. convex, obtuse, white, silky; g.
pinkish-salmon; s. bulbous, narrowed upwards, solid, white, volva irreg.
lobed; sp. 4-5 3.
Parasitic on _c.l.i.tocybe nebularis_.
=Taylori=, Berk. P. 3-5 cm. conical then obtuse, livid, edge paler, striately cracked; g. narrowest behind; s. 4-5 cm. equal, solid, whitish; volva lobed, brownish; sp. 5 3.5-4.
Differs from _V. volvacea_ by gills being narrowed behind, and small brown volva.