312 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



Agaricus domestinis, Bolton, p. 26, pi. 20 ; Cooke, lUusti'., 

 jtl. 66(> (partly after Bulton). 



The root consists of a great numlier of downy grey fibres, 

 some of which insinuate themselves into the substance of the 

 ]nitrid wood, whereon it grows; the rest crop like mouldiness 

 upon its surface. The plants most commonly grow in 

 bundles from the same root. 



The stem is white and shines Avith a silky gloss ; it is 

 tistular, of a thin, light substance, the thickness of a goose- 

 (juill, and three or four inches high; it easily divides in 

 white glittering filaments, and often abides after the pileus 

 is fallen. 



The curtain is extremel}' delicate, and vanishes as soon as 

 the rim of the pileus separates from the stem. 



The gills are in one series, numerous, broad, and deep ; at 

 first of a pale grey colour, but in decay dissolve in a black 

 inky liquor. 



The pileus is at first of an oval figure, and wrapjjcd up in 

 a volva, which is peculiar to itself, and does not in-wrap at 

 the root. The volva is of a cottony substance, and a very 

 pale grey-brown colour ; as the pileus increases in bigness it 

 1)ursts in fragments, and remains like warts on the surface. 

 From an oval, the pileus changes to a conical figure ; the 

 margin undulated, next becomes bell-shaped, and at last 

 lacerates and dissolves. 



Grows on decaying pieces of moist wood, in cellars, cold 

 kitchens, &c., in plenty. (Bolton.) 



Coprinus flocculosus. Fr. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, membranaceous, ovate then expanded, 

 dirty white, striate, covered with innate scales, splitting : 

 gills free, narrow, subviolaceous, then brownish black : stem 

 ;{ in. high, hollow, attenuated upwards, white, slightly 

 swollen at the l)asc, smooth, silky, sinning ; spores 10 x 7-8 /x. 



Coprinus Jiocculosns, Fries, Epicr., p. 'lAb; B. & Br., Ann. 

 Kat. Hist,, n. 926; Cke., Illustr., t. 667. 



In fields and gardens. Solitary or tufted ; stem often 

 with loose silky fibrils that soon disappear. Allied to 

 C. aratuH and C. htijdpua, but in the first the spores are 

 elliptic-fusiform, 1.") x JO-11 /^, in the last nan)ed the disc of 

 the pileus is bright brown. 



