358 AGARICINI. 



Coprinus. Name — jaaxpo?, long ; /cec^aArj, head. Long-headed. Berk. Out. p. i8o. C. 



Hbk. n. 471. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 435. Fr. Hyvi. Eur. p. 329. Agaricus 

 Berk. Eng. Fl. \. p. \'2'2. 



24. C. nycthemerus Fr. — Pileus 8 mm. (4 lin.) broad, grey, 

 disc fuscous, at first cylindrico-conical, soon opening into furrows 

 and flattened, 12 mm, {Yz in.) and more high, ivheji yotntg ftiffur- 

 aceo-floccidose, at length naked and forked-striate. Stem 4 cent. 

 {lYz in.) long, scarcely 2 mm. (i lin.) thick, fistulose, flaccid, equal, 

 smooth, becoming pale-white. Gills free, at first crowded, at le7igth 

 remote, distant, narrow, linear, blackish. 



Very tender. Wry much allied to C. ephemerits. 

 On dung. Rare. 



Name— n/x^Wfpo", a day and a night. From its duration. Fr. Monogr. i. 

 /. 465. Hym. Eur. p. 330. Berk. Out. p. 181. C. Hbk. n. 473. Bull. t. 

 542./. D. (under A. ephemerus). 



25. C. radiatus Fr. — Pileus 2-6 mm. (1-3 lin.) broad, dingy 

 yelloiuish., the darke?' disc rufescent., very thin, clavate then cam- 

 panulate, soon opening into furrows, flattened, 7-adiato-plicate, 

 at first covered with cinereous down, soon naked. Stem scarcely 

 reaching 2.5 cent, (i \\\l), filiform, hyaline, becoming smooth, when 

 young often pruinate. Gills free, few, very distant when the 

 pileus is split, pallid-blackish. 



The most tender of all, fugacious, withering up with a breath ; growing in 

 troops. 



On horse-dung. Common. May-Nov. 



Often overlooked because withered up after sunrise. Spores ellipsoid- 

 sphasroid, 8-10x6-8 mk. K. ; 6-8 mk. W.G.S. Name — radio, to shed 

 beams. From the radiating folds on the pileus. Fr. Mo7iogr. \. p. 466. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 330. Berk. Out. p. 181. C. Hbk. 71. 474. S. Mycol. Scot. ;/. 436. 

 Agaricus Bolt. t. 39./. C. Bull. t. 542. L. and E — H. 



26. C. Spraguei Berk. — Pileus campanulate then conical, 

 tomentose, plicate. Stem fistulose, pale cinnamon. Gills few, 

 narrov/. 



Very delicate. The difference between it and C. plicatilis as regards the 

 spores is very striking. 



In gardens. King's Cliffe. July. 



Spores narrow, subcymbiform, Uinn in. long, M.J.B. Name — after Charles 

 J. Sprague. Btrk. Out. p. 182. C. Hbk. n. 478. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 330. 



■H-st* Furfurelli. Pileus micaceous or fonfuraceous, &^c. 



27. C. domesticus Fr. — Pileus 5 cent. (2 in.) h\:o2i(\, fuliginous, 

 disc date-brown, thin, ovate then c2im^^n\i\2XQ,fu7fu7-aceo-squa?n- 



