CHAPTER VI. 



THE BLACK-SPORED AGARICS. 



The genera belonging to this series have black spores. There is an entire 

 absence of purple or brown shades. The genus Gomphidius, placed in this 

 series for other reasons, has dingy-olivaceous spores. 



Co pr'm us. Pers. 



Corpinus is from a Greek word meaning dung. This genus can be readily 

 recognized from the black spores and from the deliquescence of the gills and cap 

 into an inky substance. Many of the species grow in dung, as the name implies, 

 or on recently manured ground. Some grow in flat rich ground, or where there 

 has been a fill, or on dumping grounds; some grow on wood and around old 

 stumps. 



Figure 269. Coprinus comatus. 



Photo by Prof Shaftner. 

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