360 AGARICINI. 



Coprinus. equal, even, smooth, pallid, somewhat pellucid. Gills ?'e7note f7'0?n 

 the stem and adnate to a collar which is formed from the dilated 

 apex of the stem, distant, grey-blackish. 



Very tender and fragile, but when scorched by the sun not melting into 

 fluid. Very variable in stature and size. 



Pastures, roadsides, &c. Common. April-Oct. 



Spores broadly elliptic, voVii in. long, il/.y..5. Name^^/zV^, to fold. From 

 the folds on the pileus. Fr. Monogr. \. p. 468. Hym. Eur. p. 331. Berk. 

 Out. p. 181. C. Hbk. n. 477. S. Mycol. Scot. 11. 438. Agaricus Curt. Lo?id. 

 t. 200. Sow. t. 364. Fl. Dan. t. 1134. A. striatus Bull. t. ^"^-z partly. 



31. C. cothurnatus Godey. — Pileus dirty-white, reddish-white, 

 or flesh-colour, disc of the same colour, very thin, conico-campan- 

 ulate, slightly expanded, densely furfuraceous, at length repand, 

 umbonate and irregularly fissured. Stem 3-4 cent. {1)^-1 }4 in.) 

 long, 2-4 mm. (1-2 lin.) thick, fistulose, slender, attenuated up- 

 wards, squamulose, white, sheathed at the base with white 

 fibrillose squamules. Gills free, somewhat lanceolate, numerous, 

 white then flesh-colour. 



The pileus does not split along the back of the gills owing to the thick 

 furfuraceous coat. 



On cow-dung. Penzance. 



Name — coihiirnus, a buskin. From the covering of the lower half of the 

 stem. Godey in Gillet Champ, de France, p. 605. B. er* Br. n. 2015. 



32. C. filiformis B. & Br. — Pileus not 2 mm.(i lin.) high, gre}-, 

 shining with white mealy particles, cylindrical, striate. Stem 12 

 mm. {Yz in.) long, extremely fine, white, sprinkled with a few short 

 delicate hairs. 



This minute species is not larger than Mucor caninus. 



On the ground in wood. Colleyweston, i860. Sept. 



'i^'^me.—Jilum, a thread ; forma, form. From the hair-like stem. B. 6^ Br. 

 n. 928. t. 15./. 8. C. Hbk. 71. 480. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 332. 



■**** Hemerobii. Pilcits always smooth, &^c. 



33. C. hemerobius Fr. — Pileus ovate then campanulate, not 

 flattened and not opening into furrows, although split-sulcate, at 

 the very first smooth; vertex even, date-brown, fiot depressed. 

 Stem 7.5 cent. (3 in.) and more long, very fragile, attenuated 

 upwards, smooth, pallid. Gills linear, 2-3 mm. {i-iYz lin.) broad, 

 adnate with an obsolete collar, pallid then blackish. 



Its habit is that of C. plicatilis, but taller. Very tender. 



