CLASSIFICATION OF AGARICS 209 



(aa) No veil present. 

 (b) Spores angular. 

 (c) Spores key-stone shaped; plants growing upon ground In 



woods. 214. C boudieri Quel, 

 (cc) Spores not key-stone Bhaped; plants upon dung. 213. O. 

 ephemerus Fr. form, 

 (bb) Spores not angular. 

 ii'i Plants growing upon dung or recently manured ground. 213. 



c. ephemerus Fr. 

 (cct Not growing upon dung. 



(d) Crowing among grass; spores broadly ovate, compressed 



215. 0. plicatilia Fr. 

 (dd) Growing in woods; spores gibbous-ovate. 213. 0. sii 

 ticus l'k. 



PELLICl LOSI. Pileua covered with a distincl fleshy or mem- 

 branous cuticle. do1 splitting along the lines of the gills bn1 be 

 coming lacerate and revolute. Plants usually large. 



Section I. Comati. Ring formed from the free margin of the 

 volva : cuticle torn into scales. 



186. Coprinus comatus Fr. (Edible 

 (The Shaggy Mane) 



Fries, Epicr., p. I'll'. 



Illustrations: Cooke, III.. PL 658. 



Murrill, Mycologia, Vol. 1. PI. 3, Pig. 3. 

 Atkinson, Mushrooms, Fig. ."-l-.'JS. 

 Bard, Mushrooms, Figs. 269, 270. 

 Gillet, Champignons de France, No. 171. 

 Patouillard, Tab. Analyt, No. 1 18. 



PILEUS 7-10 cm. high, cylindrical, then more ox less expanded, 

 at firsl even, the cuticle becoming torn into broad adpressed scales, 

 pale ochraceous, becoming darker in age, interstices whitish. 

 (JILLS ii]) to li' nun. broad, almost free, white, crowded, then pint 

 ish, at length black. STEM LO-15 cm. long, L2 17 nun. thick. sul> 

 equal, Blightly attenuated upwards, white, even, hollow, more or 

 less bulbous, hull) solid, ring movable. SPORES almost black, ellip 

 tical, 13-18 x7-8 micr. 



Gregarious. In lawns and fields, very common in autumn, occa 

 sional in spring. 



The Shaggy Mane is probably more generally used for food than 

 any other Coprinus. By many people, however, it is not consid- 

 ered equal in quality to Coprinus micaceus. 



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