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coming naked wlion expanded, up to 1 in. across. Gills white 

 then blackish. (Fries.) 



Coprinus macrocephalus. Fr. 



Pileus up to r} in. high and hroad when expanded, cylin- 

 drical, then canipamilatn-expanded, ashy-grc}-, disc brownish, 

 sprinkled with paler pointed scales, margin slightly striate, 

 flesh rather thick for the size of the species ; gills quite free, 

 up to 1 line broad, at length black ; stem 13,-2 in. long, 1 line 

 or more thick, subequal, dirty white, clothed with white 

 down and long free fibres, base strigose, hollow : spores 

 bruadh" elliptical or obliquely pip-shaped, 11-13 x 7-8 yu, ; 

 cystidia elliptical, large, numerous. 



Coprinus macrocephalus. Fries, ITym. Eur., p. 329 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 231 ; Cke., Illustr. pi. 682a. 



Ayaricus macrocepJmlus, Birk., Eng. Flora, vol. v. p. 122. 



On putiid dung, Subcaespitose. Distinguished amongst 

 the small grej^ species of Ccqjrinus by the pointed squamules 

 adorning the pileus, and more especially by the long loose 

 fibrils on the stem. 



Pileus ^ in. broad, ^ in. high, linear when young, then 

 cylindrico-campanulate, the margin slightly spread out, 

 adorned with elegant adpressed or patent scales, the remains 

 of the veil ; apex brown, shaped oft' into slate colour on the 

 margin, scarcely at all pubescent. Gills linear, perfectly 

 free, at length black, clothed with pellucid spiculae. Stem 

 1-2 in. high, 2 lines thick, ascending, dirty white, fistulose, 

 clotlied with short cottony down, and with longer, sometimes 

 deflexed, loose fibres, strigose at the base, somewhat attenu- 

 ated upwards and stained Avith the black elliptic spores. A 

 very distinct species, apparently near A. lagopus ( = Co- 

 prinus lagopus). (Berk.) 



Coprinus nycthemerus. Fr. 

 Pileus J,-fj in. wlien ex]ianded, membranaceous, at first 

 conico-cylindrical, then exi)anded and splitting at the margin, 

 floccosely-mealy, radiately plicate, mari^in striate, striae fur- 

 cate, then naked, grey, disc tawny ; gills free, at length 

 distant f)om the stem, narrow, lilackish ; stem 2-3 in. long, 

 equal, hollow, llaccid, whitish, glabrous ; spores U X 6 /a. 



