104 TWENTY-THIRD REPORT ON THE STATE CABINET. 
2. COPRINUS TOMENTOSUS #7. 
Pileus very thin, at first oblong-oval and floccose-scaly, 
soon campanulate, naked, closely striate, cinereous-brown 
or blackish-brown, often with a leaden hue, finally expan- 
ded, the disk smooth, reddish or ochraceous-brown, the mar- 
gin revolute and much split or lacerated; lamelle closely 
crowded, linear, free, white, then pinkish, finally black ; stipe 
white, tall, fragile, tapering upward, finely floccose-sqamulose, 
hollow, sometimes with a large tap root; plant gregarious or 
ceespitose. 
Height 3-6’, breadth of pileus 6’—18’. 
' rene heaps. West Albany and Sandlake. June and 
uly. 
voy variable in size and color. The covering of the pileus 
is easily rubbed off. It soon disappears, and the plant quickly 
decays, seldom continuing through the day. 
3. COPRINUS NIVEUS /7. 
Pileus thin, at first long ovate, then campanulate or expanded, 
coated with a dense white mealy or floccose-squamulose persist- 
ent covering, slightly tinged with pink, the margin somewhat 
revolute and splitting; lamelle narrow, crowded, attached, 
white, then pinkish, finally black ; stipe white, nearly equal, 
fragile, hollow, with a white villous-floccose covering. 
Height 3’—-5’, breadth of pileus 8-15’. 
Dung heaps. West Albany. June. 
*4. COPRINUS MICACEUS FY. 
Pileus thin, ovate, then campanulate, with the margin more 
or less revolute, wavy, splitting, closely striate, with a few 
minute scales and sparkling atoms, or naked, varying in color 
from whitish-ochraceous to livid brown, generally darker when 
moist or old; lamelle rather narrow, crowded, white, then 
pinkish, finally black ; stipe slender, fragile, easily splitting, 
slightly silky, white, hollow, often twisted; plant mostly 
ceespitose. 
Height 2’-4’, breadth of pileus 1-2’. 
Streets, yards and fields, on or about old stumps. May- 
September. 
*5. COPRINUS PLICATILIS 7. 
Pileus very thin and delicate, soon expanded, distantly sul- 
cate-striate, grayish-brown, tinged with red, the disk smooth, 
depressed, the margin splitting; lamelle narrow, distant, 
