North Carolina, _Schweinitz_; Minnesota, _Johnson_; Ohio, _Morgan_. Probably edible, should be carefully tested. =V. Tay´lori= Berk. =Pileus= 1¾ in. high and broad, livid, conico-campanulate, obtuse, striately cracked from the apex, thin, margin lobed and sinuated. =Stem= 2½ in. long, ¼ in. thick, pallid, solid, nearly equal, slightly bulbous at the base. =Volva= date-brown, lobed, somewhat lax, small. =Gills= uneven, broad in front, very much attenuated behind, rose-color. Pileus beautifully penciled and cracked. The dark volva, bell-shaped pileus, and uneven, attenuated gills are marked characters. The habit is rather that of some Entoloma than of its more immediate allies. _Fries._ =Spores= 6×9µ _W.G.S._; broadly elliptical, smooth, 5×3.5–4µ _Massee_. Indiana, _Mrs. L.H. Cox_; West Philadelphia, in much decayed stump of maple. _McIlvaine._ =Caps= 1½-2 in. across and beautifully penciled and cracked. =Stem= 1½-3 in. long. =Gills= up to ⅓ in. wide. The spores when shed in body are a beautiful maroon. Resembling V. volvacea, but lighter in color, and having a brown volva. Specimens sent me by J.J. Newbaker, Steelton, Pa., had snow-white caps and when young were velvety to the touch. Gills tinged with pink; volva dark brown. The few specimens eaten were of good flavor, somewhat resembling Pluteus cervinus. **_Pileus more or less viscid, smooth._ =V. specio´sa= Fr.—_speciosus_, handsome. =Pileus= 3–5 in. broad, whitish, _gray_ or umber _at the disk_, fleshy, globose when young, then bell-shaped, at length plane and somewhat umbonate, even, _smooth, gluey_. =Flesh= soft, floccose, white. =Stem= 4–8 in. long, as much as 1 in. thick, solid, firm, slightly attenuated from the base as far as the apex, when young, _white-villous_ and tomentose at the base, then becoming smooth, white. =Volva= bulbous rather than lax, free however, variously torn into loops, membranaceous, ½-1 in. broad, externally tomentose, white. =Gills= free, flesh-colored. The gills are wholly the same as those of A. bombycinus. It occurs also thinner, with the pileus wholly gray. _Fries._ =Spores= 12–18×8–10µ _K._; elliptical or subglobose, smooth, 14–16×8µ _Massee_. Distinguished by the whitish, viscid pileus, and the downy volva and stem. _Massee._ “Common in cultivated soil, especially grain fields and along roads. A fine edible agaric and our most abundant one in California.” _McClatchie._ Volvæ, U.S., Lloyd. =V. gloioceph´ala= Dec. Fl. _Gr_—sticking; head. =Pileus= dark opaque brown, fleshy, bell-shaped then expanded, umbonate, smooth, _glutinous_, striate at the margin. =Stem= solid, _smooth_, becoming brownish or tawny; the _volva_, which is _circularly split_, pressed close. =Gills= free, reddish. Fragments of the volva are sometimes seen on the pileus. The stem is commonly more slender than that of A. speciosus. _Fries._ On the ground. Uncommon. June to October. _Stevenson._