502 COPBINUS 



var. soboliferus (Fr.) Rea. Cke. Illus. no. 649, t. 848. 



Soboles, offshoot ;fero, I bear. 



Differs from the type in the truncate, more squamulose p., and in 

 the stems arising from a common tuberous base. Base of stumps, rotten 

 palings, and in hot-houses. May Sept. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1643. C. fuscescens (Schaeff.) Fr. (= Coprinus atramentarius (Bull.) 

 Fr. sec. Quel.) Fuscescens, becoming fuscous. 



P. 5 7 '5 cm., whitish, or greyish, disc becoming fuscous, or rufescent, 

 submembranaceous, globose, then ovate and expanded, at length 

 revolute when deliquescent, at first covered with a somewhat mealy 

 pruina, then smooth, or rimosely squamulose on the disc, obtuse. St. 

 4-7'5 cm. x 46 mm., white, equal, fragile, slightly silky under a lens, 

 at first obsoletely ringed towards the base. Gills white, then umber, free, 

 very broad, semi-ovate. Flesh fuscous in the p. and base of st., thick 

 at the disc. Spores fuscous black, "elliptical, apiculate, 10 x 6/z" 

 Massee. Caespitose. Elm stumps, rotten wood, wood in cellars. 

 May Dec. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. rimoso-squamosus Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 651, t. 664. 



Rimosus, cracked; squamosus, scaly. 



Differs from the type only in the p. becoming cracked into angular 

 patches. Hardly worthy of a varietal name. About stumps. Oct. 

 Uncommon. 



***Universal veil floccose, at first continuous, then broken up into 

 superficial scales which form patches on the p. 



1644. C. picaceus (Bull.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 652, t. 665. 



Picaceus, appertaining to a magpie. 



P. 5-10 cm., fuliginous black, variegated with broad, unequal, super- 

 ficial, separating, white scales, from the breaking up of the universal 

 woven veil, striate. St. 10-25 cm. x 6-12 mm., white, attenuated up- 

 wards from the bulbous base, fragile, smooth. Gills white, then pinkish, 

 at length black, free, ventricose, 8-12 mm. broad. Flesh brownish 

 under the cuticle of the p., pallid elsewhere, thick only at the disc. 

 Spores black, broadly elliptical, with a basal apiculus, 14-18 x 8-12/x; 

 "basidia pyriform, 30-45 x 15-17/n. Cystidia conical-cylindrical, 

 100-150 x 30-50 ju," Rick. Said to be poisonous. Smell none, or 

 foetid. Frondose woods, especially beech, and roadsides. Sept. 

 Dec. Rather uncommon, (v.v.) 



1645. C. aphthosus Fr. a<f)0at, the thrush. 

 P. 23 cm., livid, submembranaceous, ovate, 2-5 cm. high, then cam- 



panulate, expanded, deliquescing slowly, covered with the universal veil, 

 soon separating into floccose, white, fugacious scales. St. 5 cm. x 4 mm., 



