=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 x 3.5. var. _biloba_, Cke. S. stuffed, pubescent; volva bilobed. =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 x 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. [=Fenzlii=, Schulz. P. ovate then exp. sulphur then egg-yellow; g. ventricose, rosy; s. soon hollow, subattenuated, sulphur below the median ring. [=alutacea=, Pers. P. campan. obtusely umb. glabrous, tan; g. crowded; s. glabrous, ring lax. [=xanthogramma=, Ces. P. convex, umb. squamulosely punctate from the umbo, milk-white with densely crowded yellow striae; g. very broad, crowded; s. stuffed, thin, obsoletely annulate below middle. =transilvanica=, Schulz. P. campan. striate to vertex, whitish, apex darker, edge lobed; g. crowded, unequal; s. hollow, paler than p., flocculose, ring complete, membranous. PLUTEUS, Fr. * _Cuticle of pileus fibrillose or floccose._ =cervinus=, Schaeff. P. 4-9 cm. campan. exp. even, glabrous, then broken up into fibrillose squamules which fall away, smoky with a yellowish or fawn-coloured tinge; g. white then flesh-colour; s. 5-9 cm. solid, whitish with black fibrils; sp. 7-8 x 5-6; cystidia ventricose. var. _rigens_, Pers. P. grey, blackish, virgate or squamulose; s. glabrous, somewhat shining. var. _patricius_, Schulz. P. whitish then grey with umber or tan scales, then almost glabrous, silky shining, and radiately cracked; s. even, white. var. _eximius_, Saund. and Sm. Large and showy. P. even, with a separable viscid pellicle, reddish-umber, vermilion near edge when young; s. fibrillose, at length blackish. var. _petasatus_, Fr. P. umb. glabrous, greyish white, with a separable pellicle, at length striate to middle; s. fibrillosely striate, at length tawny. var. _Bullii_, Berk. P. convex, smooth, even, pallid, disc darker; s. pale brown. [=sororiata=, Karst. P. campan. exp. floccosely scaly, yellow; g. flesh-colour; s. pallid then yellowish; sp. 7-8 x 6. [=montellicus=, Sacc. P. flesh spongy, dry, exp. yellowish, almost glabrous; g. olive-grey; s. fibrous, rufescent, incurved; sp. 10 x 8. =umbrosus=, Pers. P. 3-5 cm. campan. then exp. lacunose-rugose, at first downy, umber, edge ciliato-fimbriate; g. edge smoky-fimbriate; s. 4-7 cm. solid, squamulosely downy, pale; sp. 6-7 x 5; cystidia ventricose. Differs from _P. cervinus_ in downy p. and dark-edged gills. =ephebius=, Fr. P. 3-5 cm. exp. obtuse, covered with bluish down, edge naked; g. yellowish flesh-colour; s. 4-7 cm. stuffed, glabrous, slightly striate, whitish or tinged grey; sp. 7 x 4.