208 AGARICACE^: Coprinus 



sprinkled rosy-pulverulent. Vo. reduced to whitish spreading 

 sq. G. free, sublanceolate, reddish-brown, then black. 



Crespitose. On the ground, on dead and on partially buried hawthorn sticks. 

 Nov. I X 2| X ^ in. Allied to 936a. Differing from 925 in very 

 rudimentary volva and generally smaller size. 



947. C. Hendersonii Fr. (after J. L. Henderson) a b c. 



P. campanulato-expanded, minutely granular, tan ; mid. sienna ; 



marg. grey. St. tan. A. inferior, erect. G. subdistant, 



black, edge white. 

 Hotbeds, in fields on dung, horse, cow ; rare. Feb. -Sept. X I X $% in. 



947a. C. Bresadolse Schulz. (after J. Bresadola). 



P. subcylindrical, membranous, greyish-white, faintly brownish at 



mid. St. hollow, attenuate upwards, glabrous, white. 



A. deciduous. G. narrow, crowded, black, with a white edge. 



Gregarious. Odour none. On wood, squared wood, near woods. X 4f X J in. 



Not unlike a small 926, but whiter in colour. 



948. C. volvaeeominimus Crossl. (from its volva and small size) a. 

 P. campanulate, ashy-grey, white-squamulose ; mid. darker. 



St. hyaline. G. adnexo-free, linear, blackish-purple. 

 Decaying straw on dunghills. T 3 5 X X % in. 



//. Lanatula. 



949. C. lagopus Fr. (from the woolly stem, like a hare's foot, Gr. 



lagopous] a b. 



P. campanulato-expanded, whitish or greyish ; mid. sienna. 

 St. densely white-woolly. G. remote, linear, black. 



Sometimes csespitose. Inodorous. Rich soil, dung, rotten wood, shady 

 places in woods, rooting in rotten sawdust ; rare. July-Oct. 2^ x 5 X in. 



950. C. nareoticus Fr. (from the opium-like odour) a b. 



P. campanulato-expanded, then revolute, villous-scaly, then 

 naked, white or greyish; mid. pale sienna. St. villous, then 

 smooth, faintly ochreous-white. G. lanceolate, blackish. 



Odour very powerful, like opium, but fetid, or narcotic-alkaline, like 1211. 

 Manure-heaps. Oct. I x if X 3^ in. 



951. C. tuberosus Quel. (from the tuber at the base of the stem) a. 

 P. campanulato-expanded, then revolute, striate, white-pulverulent. 

 St. attenuate above and below, villous-white, springing from a 

 comparatively large sclerotium. G. linear, violet-black. 

 Dung, cow, decaying vegetable matter. Oct. -Dec. f X 2j x T V in. 



952. C. maeroeephalus Berk, (from the long-headed young state; 



Gr. macros, long, kephale, the head) a. 



P. campanulate, slate ; mid. brown, white-scaly. St. downy, 

 sprinkled with fine spreading fibres, dull white. G. linear, 

 black. 

 Subcaespitose. Putrid dung ; rare. March-Sept. I X 2 X T x ff in. 



