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Series V. Coprinarii. Fr. Epicr. p. 234. Spores black. 



Psathyrella is very close to Coprvaus^ more so than Panceolus. In tlie Cop- 

 rinarii the unrepresented spaces are very numerous. 



Sub-Gen. 33. Pan^olus, Fr. Epicr. 234. 



Veil, when present, interwoven, sometimes wanting ; spores 

 black, oval, smooth lemon-shaped, or echinulate : pileus somewhat 

 fleshy, viscid when moist, shining when dry, neve?-- striated, the 

 margin exceeding the variegated gills ; gills clouded, never be- 

 coming purple or brown. 



Hab. Almost all grow on dung, often near towns, in summer 

 and autumn. (Fl. VI., Jig. S3.) 



This and the follo\ving subgenus differ from all the preceding in their 

 hlacK sjjores, and occupy an intermediate position between Ago/ricv.s and 

 Copri/ius, agreeing with the latter in the colour of the spores, but joined 

 more properly to the genuine Agarics by the gills not deliquescing. Although 

 the veil may be entirely absent in some species, yet they are so allied that 

 they cannot be well separated. — W. G. S. 



Sect. 1. Pileus viscid, shining when dry. 



437. Agaxicus (Fanaeolus) separatus. L. " Ochrey 



Panaeolus." 



Pileus somewhat fleshy, campanulate, obtuse, even, viscid ; 

 stem straight, shining, white, thickened downwards, ring dis- 

 tant ; gills fixed, cinereous-black. — Fr. Epicr. p. 234. Bolt. t. 

 53. Berk. Oiitl. t. 11, /. 7. Bull t. 84. A. semiovatus. Sow. t. 

 131. Eng. Fl. V. p. 116. Price./. 39. 



On dung. Common. 



Pileus 1^ in. broad, semiovate, very obtuse, at first ochraceous, then dirty 

 white, shining, smooth, slightly viscid, wrinkled when old, subearnose but 

 watery, gills subdeliquescent, broad, ventricose, adnate by a small portion, 

 clouded, cinereous, margin white; stem 5 in high, or more, 2 lines thick, 

 at first fibrillose, beneath the ring squamuloso-pulverulent, above dotted, as 

 is the ring, with the large, black, elliptic spores. — M.J.B. Spores 'OOOt) X 

 •0004 in. (PI. F/.,/. 33.; 



438. Agaxicus (Panaeolus) leucophanes. B. <|' Br. 



" Shiny-white Panaeolus." 



Pileus campanulate, obtuse, viscid, shining when dry, innate- 

 silky white, here and there with an ochraceous tinge ; margin 

 appendiculate ; stem attenuated upwards, white, fibrillose, with 

 scattered farinaceous particles, transversely subundulate, fistu- 



