Agaricacese 



coprinus. have seen the true form of the species from Kansas. The New York 

 plant seems to me to be worthy of distinctive designation, at least as a 

 variety, and I call it 



Var. ebulbdsus. Plant smaller. Stem destitute of a bulb. Spores 

 8- 1 ox 5 /a. Peck, 44th Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



Minnesota, Johnson, 1897; Kansas, Cragin, 1884; Wisconsin, Bandy; 

 Nebraska, Clements. 



Edible. Leuba. 



Large quantities grew on rotting chestnut and oak rails at Mt. Gretna, 

 Pa., from June to August, 1899. It is strong and unpleasant. 



**** Tomento'si. Pileus at first veiled with a loose hairy veil. 



(Plate CV.) 



C. fimeta'rius Fr. fimetum, a dunghill. Pileus 1-2 in. across, 



membranaceous, thin, at first cylindrical, 

 soon conical, the edge at length revolute and 

 torn at the margin, when young everywhere 

 covered with floccose-squarrose white scales 

 (from the universal veil), which separate 

 from the vertex toward the circumference, 

 at length naked, longitudinally cracked, 

 but not opening into furrows, the vertex 

 which remains entire, livid. Stem about 

 3 in. long, 2-3 lines and more thick, hol- 

 low, fragile, thickened and solid at the base, 

 attenuated upward, shining white and 

 downy with squamules of the same color. 

 Gills free, reaching the stem, at first vcn- 

 tricose, then linear, flexuous, black. Stem 

 when young curt and firmer. Fries. 



Spores spheroid-ellipsoid , 151 8x9 1 2/x, 

 K.; I5x9/x W.G.S.; 1214x781". Massee. 

 Sometimes there is a root as long as the 



stem. M.J.B. Common on dung heaps in successive crops. Spring 

 to autumn. 



Var. pulla'tus. Pileus with adpressed scales and tomentose, soon 

 naked, brownish, then blackish. Stem equal, becoming smooth. 

 On dung. Clustered. Stature of the type. 



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COPRINUS FIMETARIUS. 



