AGAEICINl. 



165 



Pileus i-1 m. broad, catnpanalate, at lecgtli expanded and depressed 

 margin rolled back, clothed witb dense scaly meal, margin striate, very thin 

 and delicate ; gills narrow, free, subventricose, black, stem 2 in. or more 

 high, 1 line thick, thickest at the base, eenceo-squamulose, hollow, fragile 

 splitting longitudinally.— J/. y^.£. Spores '0004 X "00 J47 in. ' 



*J'S Micacei. 



466. Coptinus micaceus. Fr. ''Glistening Coprinus." 



Pilens submembranaceous, 

 oval, then campaniilate, subre- 

 pand, striate, discoid, sprinkled 

 with fugacious micaceous gran- 

 ules, at length naked, rimoso- 

 sulcate; stem hollow, silkj, or 

 even, whitish ; gills adnexed, 

 lanceolate, whitish, brown to the 

 middle, then blackish. — Fr. 

 Epicr. p. 247. Fl. Dan. 1. 1193. 

 Bolt. t. 54. Bull. 246, 565. 

 Schceff. t. 66, f. 4-6. Soiv. t. 261. 

 Grev. t. 76. Paul. t. 126. Fng. 

 Fl.Y. p. 120. Fl.Boruss.t.376. 

 Corda. Sturm, t. 2. 



About old stumps. Common. 



Fig. 39. [S. Carolina.] 



Csespitose. Pileus f-1 in. broad, or more, half ovate, often more or less 

 irregular from the dense mode of growth, sprinkled with glittering meal, 

 strongly striate, almost plicate, rufous, the umbo darkest, margin cinereous, 

 very thin, veil very fugacious ; gills attenuated in front, broad behind, as- 

 cending, attached above, umber, mottled with the spores, which appear 

 black when viewed in a mass, but are really brown purple. Stem 2-3 in. 

 high, 2 lines thick, hollow, brittle, squamulose, pulverulent, cuticle often 

 cracked into little scales, very faintly tinged with red, attenuated upwards, 

 base downy. — M.J.B. Spores with an oblique apiculus, '0003 X '00026 in. 



{Fig. 39, rediiced.) 



467. 



Coprinus aratus. Berk. ^- Br. " Umber Coprinus." 



Solitary, Tall. Pileus campanulate, umber, deeply sulcate, 

 micaceous ; disc rugose ; stem attenuated ujDwards, sub-bulbous 

 at the base, minutely silky, snow white ; gills narrow, bright 

 brown, free. — Ann.N.H.no. 927. 



In a hollow tree. May. King's Cliffe. 



