Eyrei, Mass. (= Schulzeria Eyrei, Mass.) P. 2-4 cm. campan. then exp. and umb. even, glabrous, pale tan, edge appendiculate; g. free, clear pale green then deep bluish-green; s. 4-5 cm. equal, slightly wavy, pallid; sp. green, 4-5 × 3.

The only known European representative of the Chlorosporae.

RHODOSPORAE.

  1. A. Gills free.
  2. Volvaria. Volva present; ring absent.
  3. Annularia. Volva absent; ring present, often falling away.
  4. Pluteus. Volva and ring both absent.
  5. B. Gills adnexed, rarely adnate.
  6. Entoloma. Gills sinuate behind; edge of pileus incurved when young; stem fibrous or fleshy.
  7. Nolanea. Stem cartilaginous; pileus campanulate, edge straight and adpressed to stem when young.
  8. Leptonia. Stem cartilaginous; pileus convexo-plane, edge incurved at first; gills soon separating from stem.
  9. C. Gills decurrent.
  10. Clitopilus. Stem central, fibrous; edge of p. incurved at first.
  11. Eccilia. Stem central, cartilaginous; pileus umbilicate.
  12. Claudopus. Stem excentric, minute, or absent. Species minute, membranaceous.

VOLVARIA, Fr.

  1. * Pileus dry, silky, or fibrillose.
  2. bombycina, Schaeff. P. 9-18 cm. campan. then exp. and subumb. white, silky-fibrillose; g. flesh-colour; s. 7-14 cm. solid, attenuated, glabrous, white, volva ample; sp. 6-7 × 4.
  3. [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.
  4. 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.
  5. [arenaria, Otth. P. campan. exp. umb. silky fibrillose, whitish brown, disc darker, dry; g. crowded, near to stem, subventricose; s. rather shining, whitish, base thickened; volva mostly adherent, laciniate, brownish.
  6. 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.
  7. Parasitic on Clitocybe nebularis.
  8. 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.
  9. Differs from V. volvacea by gills being narrowed behind, and small brown volva.
  10. [grisea, Q. P. flexuous, silky-villose; g. crisped, hoary; s. short, tomentose; volva trilobed; sp. 8-9.
  11. [murinella, Q. P. campan. villose, grey; g. remote, ventricose; s. slightly striate, white; volva 3-4 lobed, white; sp. 6-8 × 3-4.
  12. [hypopithys, Fr. Small. Shining white. P. conical then campan. dry, silky; g. white then flesh-colour; s. solid, equal, pubescent, adpressedly silky; volva bilobed; sp. 6-8 × 4.
  13. ** Pileus more or less viscid and (one species excepted) glabrous.
  14. [rhodomela, Lasch. P. campan. then exp. somewhat sooty, squamulose, viscid; g. reddish; s. solid, attenuated, delicately floccoso-downy then almost glabrous; volva small, floccose.
  15. speciosa, Fr. P. 7-12 cm. P. soft, campan. then exp. obtuse, glabrous, viscid edge even, white or disc greyish; g. flesh-colour; s. 10-18 cm. subbulbous, solid, attenuated, villose, white; volva lax, villose; sp. 14-16 × 8.
  16. [theiodes, Saut. P. campan. then exp. citrin, mealy, with deciduous squamules, broadly umb. edge sulcate; g. free, broad; s. hollow, fuscous.
  18. gloiocephala, D. C. P. 7-11 cm. campan. then exp. umb. glutinous, sooty, edge striate; g. reddish; s. 8-14 cm. solid, glabrous, whitish, tinged brown below; volva adnate except a small free margin; sp. 10-12 × 6-7.
  19. viperina, Fr. P. persistently conical, acute, grey; g. tinged yellow then flesh-colour; s. solid, equal, closely sheathed by the thin volva.
  20. media, Schum. P. 3-5 cm. exp. obtuse, viscid, silky when dry, white or disc tinged brown; g. rosy; s. 4-7 cm. solid, equal, glabrous, white; volva lobed; sp. 5 × 3.5.
  21. Intermediate in size between V. speciosa and V. parvula; differs from former in glabrous s. and volva, and from latter in solid stem.
  22. parvula, Fr. White. P. 1.5-2.5 cm. campan. then plane, umb. disc often tinged brown; g. flesh-colour; s. 2-3 cm. equal, subfistulose, silky; volva lax, usually 3-4 lobed; sp. 5 × 3.5.
  23. var. biloba, Cke. S. stuffed, pubescent; volva bilobed.
  24. temperata, Berk. P. 1-1.5 cm. convex then exp. and umb., disc tinged tawny, rest whitish, striate; g. pale salmon; s. 1.5-2.5 cm. whitish, volva rather large, lobed; sp. 4 × 2.5.

ANNULARIA, Schulz.

laevis, Krombh. P. 4-6 cm. convex subumb. whitish; g. free, narrowed behind, becoming pale flesh-colour; s. 4-6 cm. base swollen, white, ring large, free; sp. subgl. 7-8.