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at its periphery, and finally its rim becoming turned slightly 



Fig. 132. — Coprinus lagopus. Pure culture from spores of English origin, on horse- 

 dung balls at Winnipeg, 13 days after inoculation, showing numerous fruit-body 

 rudiments on the surface of the dung and a crop of fruit-bodies which are about 

 to elongate their stipes and expand their pilei. Each of these pilei is densely 

 covered with soft hairy scales which are fragments of the veil (c/. Fig. 140, v). 

 Natural size. 



upwards without becoming converted into a roll ; the disc, as the 



