352 AGARICINI. 



Coprinus. In pastures and garden-ground. Rare. Aug.-Sept. 



Pileus 6 cent. {2% in.) across, splitting in the direction of the gills. Stem 

 7.5 cent. (3 in.) high, finely silky under a lens. Generally solitary. B. &= Br. 

 Na-xne—j/loccus, a flock of wool. Slightly floccose. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 323. 

 B. of Br. 71. 926. C. Hbk. n. 461. S. Mycol. Scot. ?i. 426. Agaricus Batt. 

 t. 25. A. 



9. C. similis B. & Br. — Pileus pallid, the centre darker, hygro- 

 phanous, ovato-campanulate, lineato-striate, clothed with acute 

 separating warts which are fuscous at the apex. Stem hollow, 

 white, broader at the base. Gills adnate, attenuated behind, 

 somewhat linear, brownish near the margin. 



Resembling C. aphthosus, but differing in the striate pileus, &c. 



On trunks of dead trees. Bodelwyddan. Sept. 



Name — similis, like. From its resemblance to C. aphthosus. B. dr" Br. n. 

 101 1. C. Hbk. //. 460. /->. Hym. Eur. p. 323. 



■**** Tomentosi. Pilcits at first clothed with distinct flocci, &^c. 



10. C. exstinctorius Fr. — Pileus as much as 7.5 cent. (3 in.) 

 broad, pale, the darker disc somewhat livid, somewhat mem- 

 branaceous, clavate tJien canipaiiulate, striate at the margin; 

 then riinosely split, expanded, scarcely revolute. Stem 10-12.5 

 cent. (4-5 in.) long, 6 mm. (3 lin.) thick, hollow, attenuated from 

 the rooted base, becoming smooth, white, without a partial veil. 

 Gills reaching the stem, narrow, lanceolate, white then fuscous- 

 blackish. 



The covering of the pileus, arising from the universal veil, 'm Jloccoso-scaly, 

 easily separating, not so dense as in C. fimetarius, &c., becoming bald from 

 the margin to the vertex, whereas in C. fimetarius it becomes bald from the 

 vertex towards the margin. For the most part solitary. Firmer than neigh- 

 bouring species. 



On the ground. Rare. Sept. 



Name — cxstinctor, an extinguisher. From its shape. Fr. Monogr. i. /. 

 459. Hym. Eur. p. 324. Berk. Out. p. 178. C. Hbk. n. 462, 5'. Mycol. 

 Scot. II. 427. Agaricus i??^'//. /. 437./. i. Paul. t. 124./'. 7. Bolt. t. 24? 



11. C. fimetarius Fr. — Pileus membranaceous, thin, at first 

 cylindrical, soon conical, at length revolute and torn at the margin, 

 luhen young everytvhere covered with fioccoso-sguarrose white scales 

 (from the universal veil) which separate from the vertex towards 

 the circumference, at length naked, longitudinally cracked, but 

 not opening into furrows, the vertex, which remains entire, livid. 

 Stem about 7.5 cent. (3 in.) long, 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) and more 

 thick, hollow, fragile, thickened and solid at the base, attenuated 



