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white, becoming yellowish except at the apex, equal, basal half clavate, 

 densely covered with matted mycelium and sunk in the sand, sometimes 

 fusiform and rooting, striate. Gills smoky, then bistre purple, sub- 

 decurrent with a tooth, 4 mm. broad. Flesh white, yellowish at the 

 base of the st., very thin at the margin. Spores purple, broadly ellip- 

 tical, 11-12 x 7-8 /z. Sands on the sea shore. Aug. Oct. Not un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



1158. P. coprophila (Bull.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 600, t. 608, fig. A. 



/eoTTjOO?, dung; <tXo?, loving. 



P. 23 cm., rufescent tan, fleshy, hemispherical, then expanded, 

 umbonate, slightly viscid, smooth. St. 2-5-4 cm. x 2-3 mm., rufescent, 

 becoming pale, attenuated upwards, at first containing a pith, shaggy- 

 flocculose, the smooth and shining apex pruinose. Veil reddish, 

 floccose, very fugacious Gills livid, then fuscous, somewhat arcuato- 

 decurrent, very broad, 4-6 mm., crowded. Flesh white, thin. Spores 

 purple, "nearly lemon-shaped, 11-12 x 7 8ju,, smooth, with a very 

 thick membrane. Cystidia cylindric-fusif orm, 40-50 x 8-10 p, " Rick. 

 On dung, especially cow and rabbit. Pastures, and manure heaps. 

 Sept. Jan. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1159. P. bullacea (Bull.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 600, t. 608, fig. B. 



Bullacea, having a knob. 



P. 1-2 cm., dark bay brown tawny, then ochraceous brick and tan 

 when dry, fleshy, hemispherical, obtuse, then expanded, umbonate, 

 covered with a viscid, separable pellicle, striate ; margin at first appen- 

 diculate with the white, floccose, fugacious veil. St. 2-5-3 cm. x 

 2 mm., slightly tawny, becoming yellow, fuscous ferruginous at the base, 

 equal, or attenuated at the base, slightly fibrillose, apex pruinose. 

 Gills livid-whitish, then fuscous purple, adnate, somewhat triangular, 

 plane, crowded. Flesh brown, very thin at the margin. Spores purple, 

 pip-shaped, 7-8 x 4-5 p. Cystidia "on the edge of the gill, filamentous " 

 Rick. Gregarious. Horse dung, pastures, and amongst Polytricha. 

 April Oct. Common, (v.v.} 



1160. P. physaloides (Bull.) Fr. Cke. Ulus. no. 601, t. 609, fig. A. 



<f>v<ra\i<;, a bladder; etSo?, like. 



P. 11-5 cm., fuscous purple, then tan, or flesh colour, paler round the 

 margin, fleshy, campanulate, then expanded, at length flattened, 

 with a prominent umbo, finally depressed round the umbo, often striate, 

 pelliculoso-viscid, smooth, shining. St. 23 cm. x 2 mm., becoming 

 pale, base date brown, equal, filiform, flexile, adpressedly fibrillose. 

 Gills pallid, or flesh colour, then ferruginous-fuscous, adnate, subde- 

 current, equally attenuated from the st. Flesh whitish, subferruginous 

 at the base of the st., thin. Spores "yellowish under the microscope, 



