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AGAEICINI. 



Pileus campanulate, 3 in. across, umber, deeply suleate up to the darker 

 wrinkled disc, sprinkled with large micaceous particles, revolute in decay ; 

 stem 5 in. liigh, 2^ lines thick, attenuated upwards, slightly bulbous at the 

 base, straight, smooth, or rather minutely silky, snow-white, fistulose, 

 umber within ; gills narrow, attenuated at either end, free, deep rich brown, 

 then black. — B. cD Br. 



468. Copirinus radians. Fr. " Radiating Coprinus." 



Pileus membranaceous, ovato-campanulate, micaceous, disc 

 granuloso-squamose, margin striate; stem equal, naked, short, 

 fibrilloso-radiating at the base; gills reaching the stem, sub- 

 linear, white, then yiolaceous-black. — F7\ Epicr. p. 248. Ann, 

 Sc. Nat. xiii. 1. 10,/. 1. Sow. 1. 145. Eng. Fl. Y.p. 121. 



On plaster walls. 



Pileus 2 in. broad, gills free, numerous, at first white. Stem IJ in. high, 

 2 lines thick, cylindi'ic, fistulose, almost equal, curved in consequence of its 

 vertical place of growth, naked, smooth, furnished with a radiating base 2 

 in. hiosid.—Desm. Spores -00033 X '00027 in.— W. G. S. 



*SS Glahrati. 



469. Coprinus deliquescens. Fr. "Deliquescent 



Coprinus." 



Pileus submembranaceous, ovato-campanulate, then expanded, 



subrepand, broadly striate, smooth, top studded "with innate 



papillae; stem hollow, smooth; gills at length remote, linear, 



lurid black.— i^r. ^i^zcr. ^. 249. Fl. Dan. 1. 1010. Bull. t. 558, 



/.I. FLBoruss.t.376. 



On old stumps. 



Sometimes confounded with C. atramentarius. Pileus 3-4 in. broad, livid, 

 never fioccose. Gills at length very narrow. 



Sect. 2. Veliformes. Pileus plicato-sulcate. 



* Cyclodei — stem annulate or volvate. 



470. Coprinus Hendersonii. Fr. " Henderson's Coprinus." 



Pileus very delicate, oval, campanulate, smooth, striate to the 



middle ; stem filiform, becoming smooth, with a small erect 



entire ring (at length evanescent) ; gills black. — Fr. Epicr. p. 



250. Berk. Hook. Journ. t. 26,/. 1. Berk. Outl. t. 24, /. 8. Price, 



/. 114. 



