. Minnesota mushrooms ... Botany; Mushrooms. MINNESOTA MUSHROOMS VOLVARIA Characterized among the pink-spored forms by the presence of a volva and the absence of a veil. It corresponds with A m a n i t o p s i s among the white-spored agarics. Many of the species grow upon wood, often on living trees, while others are found in verv rich soil, and especially in greenhouses. The genus is generally suspected, but most of the species tried have proven edible. The name refers to the volva. Key to the Species Cap soft or silky, not sticky a. Cap white b. Cap dark, sooty or smoky Cap sticky, at least
. Minnesota mushrooms ... Botany; Mushrooms. MINNESOTA MUSHROOMS VOLVARIA Characterized among the pink-spored forms by the presence of a volva and the absence of a veil. It corresponds with A m a n i t o p s i s among the white-spored agarics. Many of the species grow upon wood, often on living trees, while others are found in verv rich soil, and especially in greenhouses. The genus is generally suspected, but most of the species tried have proven edible. The name refers to the volva. Key to the Species Cap soft or silky, not sticky a. Cap white b. Cap dark, sooty or smoky Cap sticky, at least when moist a. Cap very small, 1-2 cm. wide F. parvula b. Cap medium to large, 4-15 cm. wide (1) Cap very sticky, scarcely um- bonate ; large V. spciiosa (2) Cap sticky when moist, umbon- ate; medium V. umbonata Volvaria bombycina Silky Volvaria Cap large, 8-25 cm. wide, all white, and silkv, more rarely somewhat scaly, hemispheric or bell-shaped to convex; stem 8-12 cm. by 1-2 cm. white, smooth, tapering upward, solid, volva large and spreading; gi 1 1 s free, salmon-pink, crowded; spores elliptic, 6-7 X â +/«â The name refers to the silky cap. On the trunks of standing or fallen trees, from June to October; said to be edible. Volvaria volvacea Dark Volvaria Cap medium, 5-9 cm. wide, grayish or sooty, darkened with black fibrils, bell- shaped to convex: stem 8-14 cm. by 1 cm., white, smooth, solid, volva large. V. bombycina V. volvacea. Figure iQ. Volvaria bo MHVCINA. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Clements, Frederic E. (Frederic Edward), 1874-1945; Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota
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