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COPRINUS. 



Lanatuli. P ileus with superficial separating floccules, &^c. Coprinus 



21. C. lagopus Fr. Pileus 2.5 cent, (i in.) broad, whitish, disc 

 livid, very tender, cylindrical then campanulate, when young beau- 

 tifully floccose then naked, flattened and split, radiato-sulcate. 

 Stem 12.5 cent. (5 in.) and more long, 2 mm. (i lin.) thick, very 

 weak, very fragile, slightly attenuated at both ends, everywhere 

 wJiite-woolly. Gills at IcngtJi remote, linear, black. 



A) nemonim (described above), in moist shady places in woods. B) viarum, 

 in open places among rubbish, approaching C. nivciis, differing in the stem 

 being 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, equally attenuated from the base, in the pileus 

 when expanded being 2.5-5 cent. (1-2 in.) broad, at first everywhere white- 

 floccose, opening into furrows, occasionally squamulose, livid. Gills free but 

 scarcely remote. Both forms inodorous. 



On rich soil and dung. Rare. Aug. 



Gills very close, mostly in one series, with a marginal one occasionally in- 

 serted forming a second series, sometimes in three series, the intermediate 

 ones very irregular in length, \V.G.S. Name Aayoi?, a hare; TTOV?, afoot. 

 Hare's-foot. From the woolly stem. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 465. Hym. Eur. p. 

 329. Berk. Out. p. 180. C. Hbk. n. 472. .V. Mycol. Scot. n. 434. Sa.it nd. 

 & Sm. t. 19. 



22. C. narcoticus Fr. Pileus as much as 2.5 cent, (i in.) broad, 

 white, conico-cylindrical, villous witJi recurved floccose scales, then 

 flattened, denuded, striate, hyaline. Stem almost 5 cent. (2 in.) 

 long, 2 mm. (i lin.) thick, fistulose, equal, at first villous, at length 

 becoming smooth. Gills free, reaching the stem, white then 

 blackish. 



Very tender. Of all the Hymenomycetes it has the strongest smell, narcotic- 

 alkaline. 



On manure-heaps. Shrewsbury. Oct. 



Smell like that of Hygrophorus foetens, Phil. Spores 11x5 mk. W.P. 

 Name from its odour. Fr. Motiogr. i. p. 465. Hym. Eur. p. 329. Gre- 

 villea, vol. viii. /. 97. Agaricus Batschf. 77. Pers. J/ir. Eur. 3. t. 26. f. 5. 



23. C. macrocephalus Berk. Pileus rather more than 12 mm. 

 ( l / 2 in.) broad, apex brown shaded off into slate-colour on the 

 margin, at first cylindrical, then cylindrico-campanulate, sprinkled 

 with pointed scales. Stem 2.5-5 cent. (1-2 in.) long, 4 mm. (2 

 lin.) thick, fistulose, attenuated upwards, dirty white, clothed with 

 short cottony down, and with longer, sometimes deflexed, loose 

 fibres, strigose at the base. Gills linear, perfectly free, at length 

 black. 



Scales adpressed or patent. Spores elliptic. 

 On putrid dung. Rare. March, Sept. 



