160 



AGARICINI. 



About hedge borders. Common. 



Pileus Ig in. broad, at first obtusely conic, then sub-hemisplierical, at 

 len:^th plano-expandod, with a fine evanescent aro.chnoid veil, ochraceous, 

 inchning to pale rufous, at length cream-coloured, or nearly white, some- 

 times purplish, or rose-coloured ; gills broad, ventricose, rather distant, at 

 first pale ochraceous, then brown purple, or cinereous-black. Stem 2-3 in. 

 high, 1-2 lines thick, somewhat rooting, fistulose, brittle, striate above, and 

 slightly pulverulent, base thickest, and more or less cottony, never quite 

 Bmooth.—JW. J. B. Spores -OOCo X -00035 in. 



452. Agaxicus (Psathyxella) disseminatus. 



Psathyrella." 



Fr. " Clustered 



Pileus membranaceous, ovato-campanulate, furfuraceous, then 

 naked, sulcato-plicate, entire, discoloured ; stem lax, subflexuose, 

 fragile, at first mealy, then smooth ; gills adnate, broadly linear, 

 whitish, cinereous, then black. — Fr. Epicr.p. 240. Sow. 1. 166. 

 Paw/. #.123./. 6. Fl.Dcm.t.lSA:^. SchfFff.t. 80S. Batsch.f.S. 

 Buxb. il,t. 60, f. 6. Eng.Fl.y. p. 118. Batt.t.27,C. Vent.t.Sb, 

 f. 3-4. 



About trunks of trees, and on the ground. Common. 



[United States.] 



Gregarious, csespitose. Pileus 3 lines broad, campanulato-conic, minutely 

 pubescent, strongly striate, submembranaceous, tender, fragile, ochraceous, 

 at length white, with a pearly tint towards the margin ; gills broadly adnate, 

 pink, inclining to cinereous. Stem 1 in. high, ^ line thick, fistulose, curved, 

 white, pubescent, attenuated upwards, downy at the base.— i/./. B. Spores 

 •0003 X -0002 in. (PL VI. Jig. 34.) 



Genus 2. 



COPRINUS, Fr. Epicr. p. 241. 



Spores black ; pileus : margin of 

 pileus straight, at first adpressed to 

 the stem ; stem confluent with or 

 distinct from the hymenophore ; gills 

 free, at first coherent, and sprinkled 

 with a micaceous scurf, soon deU- 

 quescing into a black fluid, trama 

 none. 



Hab. Fat and rank places, often 

 on dung, but sometimes on decaying 

 wood. (Figs. 38, 39.) 



Readily distinguished by its deliquescent 

 habit. 



