HYMENOMYCETES. 



101 A. FiMiPUTEis. Bull. 2 — 6. 1—9 broad and high. 1—2 

 lines. 



Pileus campanulate, blackish grey with brown shades, margin 

 often delicately fringed ; gills ascending, very dark ; stem 

 rufescent with a white bloom, often shewing traces of a ring. 

 Spores very broadly fusiform, nearly black, -00066. Very 

 common on horse-dung. 



Suh-genus PSATHYEELLA. 



102 A. GRACILIS. Pers. 1^—3. i— ]. i— 1 line. 



Pileus thin, campanulate, pale or dingy brown ; gills ventri- 

 cose, margin rose coloured. Lane near Acorn-field Wood. 

 By a sawpit near St. Helens. 



103 A. DissEMiNATDs. Pcrs. 1 — S. 3 — 4 lines, i line. 



Pileus ovato-campanulate, striate, frosted, pale fawn, or greyish. 

 Very beautiful, but extremely perishable, soon becoming 

 flaccid. Gregarious. Hundreds on a stump, Rainhill. Thou- 

 sands covering a bank, Croxteth. 



Genus II. COPRINUS. 

 Series. I. Pelliculosi. 



Comati—volva concrete with the epidermis of the pileus, at length torn 

 into scales. 



104 C. coMATus. Miill. 4 — 10. 3 — 5 high, 2 broad. i |. 



Pileus cylindrical, fringed to the apex with whitish cottony 

 scales ; gills white, becoming pink and at length black ; stem 

 white, hollow, with a loosely woven thread down the centre. 

 Spores elliptical. '0006. Common in gardens and waste 

 places. A specimen occurred at Bold, 16 inches in length. 



Atramentarii—volva none ; pileus minutely scaly. 



105 C. ATRAMENTARius. Bull. 1 — 6. 2 — 3 high, 2 — 4 broad 



h—i- 



Pileus conical or oval, plaited or lobcd, at length expanded, 

 with the margin curled upward, gi-ey or brownish ; gills purple 

 brown, margin white. Spores subfusiform, very dark. 0004. 

 When young the plant is firm and heavy, the margin of the 

 pileus reaching to the bottom of the stem. Gregarious or 

 tufted. Very common in gardens and waste places. 



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