. Guide to Sowerby's models of British fungi in the Department of Botany, British Museum (Natural History) . n. 41. Agaricus tremulus Schneff.—Pileus brownish-grey, hygro-phanous, slightly (Icshy, dimidiate, reniform, depressed and smooth,but often villous behind ; gills adnate or decurrent, linear, somewhatdistant, grey; stalk very short, but distinct, grey, terminating at thebase in a woolly mass. A small, variable, and rare species, growing on mosses, fungi,rotten wood, or on the ground. Series II.— Hvporhodii. Spores salmon, yellowish-saiiiKiii, pale rose, rubiginous, brown-ish-pink, or na
. Guide to Sowerby's models of British fungi in the Department of Botany, British Museum (Natural History) . n. 41. Agaricus tremulus Schneff.—Pileus brownish-grey, hygro-phanous, slightly (Icshy, dimidiate, reniform, depressed and smooth,but often villous behind ; gills adnate or decurrent, linear, somewhatdistant, grey; stalk very short, but distinct, grey, terminating at thebase in a woolly mass. A small, variable, and rare species, growing on mosses, fungi,rotten wood, or on the ground. Series II.— Hvporhodii. Spores salmon, yellowish-saiiiKiii, pale rose, rubiginous, brown-ish-pink, or nankeen. Sometimes Agarics with clay-coloured spores,belonging tu .Scries III. Dcruiitii, arc confounded with the are loi liritibh species oi Hypor/ioclii, four of which are re-presented by models. Sub-genus 10. Volvaria.—There are nine British species ofVolvaria, of which one is represented by a model. In its earlystage the entire fungus is enveloped in a wrapper or veil, as shownin the small section on the left side of the illustration. This veil, GUIDE TO THE MODELS OF FUNGI. 23. when ruptured, remains as a sheath or volva at the base of the maturefungus, as shown on the larger section. All the species of Volvariaare more deliquescent than Agarics ingeneral. They grow in woods, gardens,by roadsides, and in hothouses. Oneremarkable species, A. Loveianus, growsparasitically upon the pileus oiA. of the species are edible; the largerspecies are sometimes mistaken for mush-rooms. One large species, ,has a very unpleasant odour and is said tobe poisonous. 42. Agaricus volvaceus Bull.—Pileuscampanulate, then expanded, obtuse,cinereous, streaked with adpressed blackfibrils ; gills free, flesh-coloured ; stalk Fig. form of , solid, and almost equal; volva AgaricusvoivaceusBuli. (One- ^ fifth natural size.) large, lax. A. volvaceus is a magnificent Agaric well represented in themodel; it grows usually by grass
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