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bons, not rooting, fragile, smooth; gills free, ventricose, cinereous- 

 black.— i^r. Epicr. p. 244. Bull. t. 206. Sow. 1. 170. Fl. Dan. 

 1. 144. Smith. P.M.f. 9. Eng.Fl. v. p. 119. 



On roadsides. Rare. 



Pileus 2 in. broad and high, campanulate, glutinous, closely grooved, 

 brown with a tinge of red above ; margia cinereous, dimpled at the apex; 

 cuticle cracking into large pale fawn-coloured subconic scales, flesh very 

 thin ; gills broad, ventricose, narrow in front, black, the extreme margin, 

 except when deliquescent, white, quite free ; stem 6 in. high, ^ in. thick at 

 the base, beautifully satiny with adpressed fibrillge, attenuated above, 

 where it is subtomentose and stained with the spores, sub-bulbous below, 

 hollow.— J/. ./. B. Spores -00055 X -00036 in. 



459. Coprinus aphthosus. Fr. " Scaly Coprinus." 



Pileus membranaceous, ovato-campanulate, witliout striae, 

 sprinkled with superficial floccose scales, then naked ; stem 

 hollow, ec[ual, twisted, fibrillose ; gills adnate, linear, white, then 

 black. — Fi\ Fpicr. p. 246. Bolt. t. 26. 



In hollow trees, cellars, etc. 



Pileus about an inch high, livid, not striate j stem 2 in. long, 2 lines 

 thick, soft, white. 



460. Coprinus similis. B. ^' Br. " Striate Coprinus." 



Pileus ovato-campanulate, lineato-striate, pallid, centre ob- 

 scurely hygrophanous, clothed with acute brown warts ; stem 

 hollow, white, largest at the base; gills adnate, attenuated 

 behind, sublinear, brownish near the margin. — B. 4' Br. Ann. 

 N.II.lS6b,no. 1011. 



On trunks of dead trees. Sept. Bodelwyddan. 

 Resembling C. aphthosus, but differing in the striate pileus, &c. 



461. Coprinus flocculosus. D. C. " Flocculose Coprinus." 



Pileus membranaceous, globose, then expanded, striate, dis- 

 coid; clothed with evanescent floccose scales, at length smooth ; 

 stem hollow, equal, smooth, naked; gills remote, ventricose, 

 violaceous, then brownish-black. — Fr. Epicr. p. 245. Batt. i. 25, 

 /. A. Ann. N. H. no. 926. 



In pastures. Aug. King's Cliffe. 



Pileus 2^ in. across, ovate, at length expanded, dirty-white, striate, split- 

 ting in the direction of the gills, covered with innate scales, thus resembling 

 C. 'picaceus ; stem 3 in. high, attenuated upwards, white, slightly swollen at 

 the base, smooth, or rather finely silky under a lens j gills free, generally 

 solitary.—^. & Br. 



