CLASSIFICATION OF AGARICS 216 



white, squamulose. SPORES L2-14x7-8 micr. CYSTIDIA large 

 and numerous. 



Solitary or in troops. Common upon dung heaps. The clavate 

 caps already dark with spores may be found emerging late in the 

 afternoon or in the evening. In the morning there will be little 

 remaining excepl a small mass of inky fluid at the apices of the 

 stems. 



195. Coprinus fimetarius var. macrorhiza IV. 



Fries. 1 1\ in. Eur., p. 32 I. 



Illustrations: Cooke, III.. PL 670. 



Massee, Ann. Bot., Vol. L0, PI. X. Fig. 1. 



Bard, Mushrooms, Pig. -~~>. 



Gillet, Champignons de Prance, No. 178. 



PILEUS ai first with feathery squamules which become more or 

 less squarrose, especially at the disk where they often form a 

 crown. STEM short, villous, often sub-bulbous ami with a more 

 or less elongated base. 



The type ami this variety are very common, the latter being 

 rather more frequently found than the former. In moist weather 

 they mav he found in almost any dung heap, a fresh troop appear 

 ing each evening ami disappearing early the following day. There 

 seems to he considerable variation in size, Length of root and char- 

 acter of scales. Iii the typical form the root is usually reduced to 

 a rather indefinite mass of hyphae, while the scales are more or less 

 squarrose over the entire surface. In the variety the veil is more 

 silky ami closely appressed to the pileus, Inter becoming squarrose 

 at the disk forming a crown of scales. 



196. Coprinus tomentosus IV. 



Fries, Epicr., p. 246. 

 Illustration : Bulliard, t. L38. 



PILEUS 2.5-4 cm. long, sub-membranaceous, cylindrical, narrowly 

 conical, then expanding ami splitting, striate, floccose-toraentose, 

 pale gray, the floccose veil becoming torn into more <"• less persist 



cut Hakes or patches upon the expanded pileus. <illd/S lice, n.ir 

 low. STEM 5-7 cm. long, I 5 mm. thick, equal or slightly enlai 

 below, hollow, velvety, white or grayish. SPt >KF.s L2 13x7-8 micr.. 

 elliptical. 



