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beneath the pileus at the rate of about a milUon a minute. The 

 stout stipe is smooth and white. The fruit-body was obtained 





Fig. 58. — Coprinus comatus. Upper two-thirds of a fruit-body in an 

 advanced state of autodigestion. Drops of a dark fluid are hanging 

 from the upturned pileus rim. About a million spores a minute 

 are escaping from the gills. Photographed at Winnipeg. Natural 



size. 



growing on soil-covered rubbish at Winnipeg, Canada ; and it 

 differed in no wise from fruit-bodies in the same stage of develop- 



