Spores elliptic, smooth, 6–7×4µ Massee; 6–8µ 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.
Volvaria volvacea.
Two-fifths natural size.
V. volva´cea Bull.—volva, a wrapper. Pileus 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 adpressed blackish fibrils. Gills free, about 2 lines broad, pale flesh-color. Stem 2–4 in. long, about 4 lines thick, almost equal, white, solid. Volva large, loose, whitish. Spores smooth, elliptical, 6–8×3.5–4µ; no cystidia. Massee.
On the ground by roadsides, etc., also in stoves.