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Sect. 1. Pelliculosi. — pileus rather fleshy. 



* Cornati. 



453. Coprinus comatus. Fr. •'' Shaggy Coprinus." 



Pileus rather fleshy, cylindrical, then expanded, even, soon 

 torn into broad, adpressed, scattered scales ; stem hollow, fibril- 

 lose, bulb solid, rooting ; ring moveable ; gills free, linear, white, 

 then purplish. — Fr. hlpicr. p. 242. Batt. 26, B. Fl. Dan. t. 831. 

 Schceff. t. 46, 47. Soiv. 1. 189. Grev. 1. 119. Paul. 1. 127. Kromhh. 

 t. 3, f. 35, t. 30, f. 15-21. Cooke, B. F. 1. 11. Smith, E.M.f. 13. 

 ^afki.^. 10,/.2,ii.^7,/. 1-3. Pnce,/. 49. Gard. Chron.{l^QO), 

 p.l^Jg. Tram. Woolh.Cl. 1868, t. 13. Curt. Fl. L. t. 93. (Bolt. t. 

 142, var. ?) Eng.Fl. Y.p. 118. FL Boruss. t. 389. Hogg. ^- .lohnst. 

 i.3. 



Sides of roads, pastures, &c. Common. Esculent. 



[S. Carolina.] 



Pileus 3-4 in. high, 2 in. broad, campamilato-cylindrical, cuticle white, 

 breaking up into broad fibrillose, sub-fuscous scales ; beneath this coating 

 the pileus is finely plicate, often split, and of a pinky-brown, flesh scarcely 

 any on the margin, rather thick in the centre j gills very numerous and 

 close, beautifully varied with pink and brown-black, margin white, or 

 pinkish, minutely downy, slightly undulated, quite free, so as to leave a 

 sort of collar roand the stem. Stem 5 in. or more high, fin. thick at the 

 base, hollow, filled with arachnoid fibres, bulbous, fibrillose, and sub-ad- 

 presso-squamose; sometimes tinged with pink, brittle, but tolerably firm; 

 ring thick and moveable.— J/. ./. B. Spores with an apiculus at one end, 

 or on one side, '00058 X '00032 in.-W. G. S. 



454. Coprinus ovatus. Fr. " Ovate Coprinus." 



Pileus submembranaceous, ovate, then expanded, striate ; at 

 first woven into densely imbricated, thick, concentric scales ; 

 stem bulbous, rooting, flocculose, hollow above, ring deciduous ; 

 gills remote, lanceolate, white, then brownish-black. — Fr. Epicr. 

 p. 242. Schrejf. t. 7. Ray. Syn. no. 22, p. 5. Ann. N.H. no. 925. 



In pastures. Woodnewton. 



Similar to C. coraatus, but smaller, and more delicate ; pileus whitish ; the 

 gills are less deliquescent. Stem 3-4 in. long. 



455. Coprinus sterquilinus. Fr. " Sulcate-dung Coprinus." 



Pileus membranaceous, conical, then expanded, sulcate, at 

 first villous or silky, disc rather fleshy, squarroso-squamose ; 

 stem attenuated ; fibrillose, base solid, not rooting, annulate ; gills 



