COPRINUS 501 



14-23 x 9-14/u,. Cystidia "on edge of gill vesiculose, filled with a 

 reddish juice" Rick. Dung-heaps, and gardens. July Sept. Un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



1640. C. oblectus (Bolt.) Fr. Bolt. Hist. Fung. t. 142. 



OUectus, delightful. 



P. 3-5 cm., whitish, then bright flesh colour, at length black, mem- 

 branaceous, cylindrical, then conico-campanulate, covered with white 

 silky scales, sulcate nearly up to the disc. St. 8-12 cm. x 5-6 mm., 

 white, slightly attenuated upwards, soft, silky. Volva brownish on 

 the outside, white on the inside, large, free, spreading, up to 6 mm. 

 broad. Gills becoming blackish, with a tinge of flesh colour, free, 

 linear. Flesh white, thin. Spores black, elliptic-oblong, with an oblique 

 basal point, 16 x 8-9 /z. Newly made dung-hills. Aug. Nov. Rare. 

 (v.v.) 



1641. C. squamosus Morg. Journ. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist, vi, t. 8. 



Squamosus, scaly. 



P. 2-8 cm., cinereous, covered with reddish brown scales, submem- 

 branaceous, ovoid, 2-3 cm. high, then expanded, at length splitting 

 and revolute. St. 6-15 cm. x 6-12 mm., white, equal, often attenuated 

 at the base, covered with reddish brown scales below the ring, smooth 

 above. Ring distant, narrow, fugacious. Gills white, then reddish 

 brown, and finally black, free, ventricose. Flesh brownish under the 

 cuticle, white elsewhere, thin. Spores black, boat-shaped, 9-10 x 5/i. 

 Caespitose. Base of trunks, elms, and old palings. Sept. Oct. Un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



**Somewhat ringed, but not with a volva. P. dotted, or 

 spotted with minute, innate squamules. 



1642. C. atramentarius (Bull.) Fr. (= Coprinus 'fuscescens (Schaeff.) 

 Quel.) Cke. Illus. no. 648, t. 662. Atramentarius, inky. 



P. 5-8 cm., lurid fuliginous, becoming hoary with adpressed, silky 

 lustre, fleshy, ovate, obtuse, wholly longitudinally and deeply sulcate 

 and ribbed, soft to the touch, minutely mealy, repand-unequal at the 

 margin, disc often squamulose, slightly adpressedly silky at the sides. 

 St. 7-20 cm. x 8-18 mm., white, at first ventricose, fusiform, attenuated 

 shortly downwards, and for a greater distance upwards, furrowed, 

 then elongato-attenuated upwards, firm, longitudinally fibrillose, apex 

 smooth, base often with a few tawny squamules. Ring white, basal, 

 very fugacious. Gills whitish, then brown-black, quite free, ventricose, 

 10-15 mm. broad, edge flocculose. Flesh fuliginous, scissile. Spores 

 black, elliptical, 9-10 x 5ju,, 1-multi-guttulate. Cystidia cylindric- 

 saccate, 50-120 x 25-37 ju,. Taste mild. Edible. Caespitose rarely 

 solitary. Woods, pastures, and gardens, almost always connected with 

 buried wood. May Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



