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tulate on the margin when moist, dirty white or clay colored with 
a pinkish tinge, subatomaceous and radiately wrinkled when dry ; 
lamellze close, broad, attached, with a slight spurious decurrent 
tooth, dingy flesh color, then rosy brown, finally black with a 
whitish edge: stem pallid, equal, hollow, slightly enlarged at the 
base, slightly mealy and striate at the. top, subfibrillose when 
young, with a white mycelium at the basé; spores elliptical cymbi- 
. A 1 t = . 
form, zy, Jong. 
Plant 2'-3' high, pileus 1’-2' broad, stem 1"—2" thick. About 
manure heaps. West Albany. May. 
It is gregarious or subceespitose, and has a strong odor resem- 
bling that of the “ poison elder,’ Sambucus pubens. The pileus 
is sometimes split on the margin and occasionally cracked on the 
surtace. 
Coprinus RApDIATUS Boldt. 
Horse dung. Sandlake. August. 
CopRINUS SILVATICUS 72. Sp. 
Pileus membranaceous, with a thin fleshy disk, convex, plicate- 
striate on the margin, dark brown, the depressed striw paler ; 
lamelle subdistant, narrow, attached to the stem, brownish; stem 
fragile, slender, smooth, hollow, white; spores gibbous-ovate, 
atoo long. 
Plant 2’ high, pileus 6’—10" broad, stem B thick. Ground in 
woods. Greig. September. (Plate 4, figs. 10-14.) 
The strie extend about half way up the pileus. Allied to C. 
plicatilis and C. ephemeris. 
CopRINUS SEMILANATUS 2. Sp. 
Pileus submembranaceous, broadly conical, then expanded and 
strongly revolute, with the margin sometimes split, farinaceo- 
atomaceous, finely and obscurely rimose-striate, pale grayish 
brown; lamella narrow, close, free ; stem elongated, fragile, hollow, 
slightly tapering upward, white, the lower half clothed with loose 
cottony flocci which rub off easily, the upper half smooth or slightly 
farinaceous ; spores broadly elliptical, s)4,° long, 
Plant very fragile, 4—6' high, pileus 8’-12" broad, stem 1” thick 
at the base. Rich ground and dung. Sandlake. Angust. (Plate 
4, figs. 15-18.) Allied to @. cob pertus. 
Boxsirivus NOBILIS 7. sp. 
Pileus thin, fleshy on the disk, ovate, then campanulate, smooth, 
plicate-striate, pale yellow, the disk tinged with red, the margin at 
