162 AGARICINI. 



free, ventricose, purplish. — Fr. Epicr. p. 242. Mich. t. 83. /. 3. 

 Eng.Fl v. p. 119. Ann. N.H. no. 150. 



On duncr. Rare. Kint^'s Cliffe. 



Pileus 1 J in. broad, dingy ; stem 5 in. long, hollow, solid at the base. 



** Atramentarii. 



456. Coprinus atxamentazius. Fr. " Inky Coprinus." 



Pileus slightly fleshy, ovate, then expanded, repand, spotted 

 at the top with innate squamules ; stem hollow, firm, zoned 

 within ; ring abrupt, fugacious ; gills free, ventricose, white, 

 then purphsh-black. — Fr. Epicr. ^.243. Fl. Dan. t. 1370. Fl. 

 Boriiss. t. 390. Price./. 40. Sow. 1. 188. Vaill. t. 12, f. 10-11. 

 Bull. t. 164. Berk. Outl. 1. 12, f. 1. Cooke. B.F. 1. 12. Eng.Fl, 

 Y.p. 119. Badh.i. t. 10, /.I. ii. t. 9,/. 1-2. 



About old stumps and on naked soil. Common. Esculent. 



[United States.] 



Gregarious, ceespitose; pileus 3| in. or more high, subcarnose, campanu- 

 late, obtuse, edge uneven, dirty-grey, at length brownish, innato-fibrillose, 

 more or less furfuraceous and corrugated, apex often scaly ; gills very broad 

 and close, ventricose, umber, margin white, rounded behind, quite free; 

 stem 3^ in. high, \ in. thick, fistulose, juicy, fibrillose, attenuated upwards, 

 brittle, the substance banded concentrically.— J/. /. B. Spores •00035 X 

 •00021' in. 



[Coprinus luridus. Fr. (Bolton, t. 25.) has only been found by Bolton, 

 at Halifax, and is probably a variety of the above.] 



457. Coprinus fuse esc ens. Fr. " Brownish Coprinus." 



Pileus submembranaceous, ovate, then expanded, unpolished ; 

 disc rather fleshy, even or cracked, scaly ; stem hollow, fragile, 

 incurved, subfibrillose, scarcely annulate ; gills fixed, umber- 

 black.— i^r. Epicr. p. 24.4.. Schceff. t.l7. Paul. t. 125, f.l. 



On dead stumps. Rare. Kilmory. [Cincinnati.] 



More delicate than C aframentarius, smaller and more fragile ; pileus 

 brownish-grey, 2, rarely 3 in. broad ; the disc becoming brown, not 

 sprinkled with micaceous particles, but at first covered with an opaque 

 mealiness ; stem 3 in. long, 2-3 lin. thick; spores with an oblique apiculus, 

 •0004 X -00023 in. (Fig. 38, reduced.) 



*^* Picacei. 



458. Coprinus picaceus. Fr. *' Magpie Coprinus." 



Pileus membranaceous, ovato-campanulate, striate, varie- 

 gated ^ith broad, white, superficial scales; stem hollow, bul- 



