AGAEICINI. 167 



On liot beds and on dung in fields. Rare. Milton, &c., 

 Norths. 



Looks like a small annulate A. disseminatus , Pilaus finely granulated 

 tinder a lens. 



* * Laiiatuli — pileus superficially floccose, veil evanescent. 



471. Coprinus macrocephalus. J5£'?-A. " Stunted .Coprinus." 



Pileus at first cylindrical, then cylindrico-campanulate, 

 sprinkled with pointed scales ; stem dirty white, fistulose, 

 clothed with short cottony down and loose fibres, strigose at the 

 base; gills linear, perfectly free. — Berk. OutLj). 180. Eng.Fl. v. 

 p. 12-2. 



On jDutrid dung. Cotterstock, Norths. 



Pileus f in. broad, | in. high, linear when young, then cylindrico-cam- 

 panulate, margin slightly spread out, adorned with elegant, adpressed, or 

 patent scales, the remains of the veil ; apex brown, shaded off into slate- 

 colour on the margin, scarcely at all pubescent; gills linear, perfectly free, at 

 length black. Stem 1-2 in. high, 2 lines thick, ascending, dirty white, fistu- 

 lose, clothed with short cottony down, and with longer, sometimes deflexed 

 loose fibres, strigose at the base, somewhat attenuated upwards, and stained 

 with the black elliptic spores. — M. J. B. 



472. Coprinus lagopus. Fr. "Hare's-foot Coprinus." 



Pileus very thin, cylindrical, then campanulate, clothed with 

 white fiocci, at length split, radiato-sulcate, somewhat revolute ; 

 stem very fragile, on all parts woolly, white ; gills free, linear, 

 black . — Fr. Epicr. p. 250. Saund. ^' Sm. 1. 19. 



On dung. 



Remarkable for the dense cottony coat of the stem, which is 5 in. long or 

 more. Pileus about 1 in. broad, whitish ; disc livid. 



473. Coprinus nycthemerus. Fr. " Thin-capped Coprinus." 



Pileus very thin, soon rimose, expanded, flocculoso-furfura- 

 ceous, discoid, then naked, furcato-striate ; stem equal, flaccid, 

 smooth, whitish ; gills free, narrow, blackish, at first crowded, 

 then distant, remote. — Fr. Epicr. p. 251. Bull. t. 542,/. D.I. 



On dung. King's Cliffe. Norths. [Cincinnati.] 



Pileus grey, a few lines across, from 4 lines to f in. or more high; disc 

 brown j stem whitish. 



