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oreades and the Aequi-hymeniiferae generally, is expanded into a 

 swollen flange. The flanges of the gill-edges of successive gills 



Fig. 77. — Coprinus sterquilinus. A fruit-body growing on sterilised 

 horse dung in a glass dish. The pileus is expanding and has just 

 begun to shed spores. Each of the sulcations separates the two 

 halves of a single gill. Natural size. 



are in contact with one another before the pileus opens and 

 whilst the development of the sterigmata and spores is going on 

 (Fig. 79), The gills are therefore subparallel-sided and flanged. 

 We thus see that, so far as the shape of its gills is concerned, 



