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Preface ............ vii 



PART I 



FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON THE COPRINI 

 CHAPTER I 



THE CUETUS SUB-TYPE ILLUSTRATED BY COPRINUS CURTUS 



Characters of the Curtus Sub-type — Representative Species — Coprinus 

 curtus : Cultures^Fruit-bodies rendered Sterile by Fumes from Fresh 

 Manure — SjTionyms — Taxonomic Description — The Pilear Scales and 

 the Pilocystidia — The Caulocystidia — The Pilear Flesh — The Gills — 

 The Hymenium — The Giant Tramal Cells — The Spores — The Periodicity 

 in Fruit-body Development — The Stipe — The Ripening of the Spores — 

 The Opening of the Pileus — The Discharge of the Spores and the 

 Autodigestion of the Gills — Concluding Remarks. .... 1 



CHAPTER II 



THE PLICATILIS SUB -TYPE ILLUSTRATED BY COPRINUS PLICATILIS 



Characters of the Plicatilis Sub-type — Representative Species — Coprinus 

 plicatilis — Geographical Distribution — Relations with its Substratum — 

 Cultures — The Fruit-bodies — A Synonym : Coprinus hemerobius — The 

 Pileus— The Gills— The Hymenium— The Spores— The Stipe— The 

 Periodicity in Fruit-body Development and Time of Spore-discharge — 

 The Ripening and Discharge of the Spores and the Absence of Auto- 

 digestion — The Generic Position of Coprinus plicatilis — The Absence 

 of Autodigestion and its Significance — Coprinus plicatilis and Coprinus 

 longipes — A Taxonomic Description of Coprinus plicatilis ... 33 



CHAPTER III 



VARIOUS REMARKS ON THE COPRINI 



Comparative Remarks on the Coprinus and Non-Coprinus Types — Coprinus 

 Ink — The Hyphal String in the Stipe of Coprinus comatus — A Further 



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