COPRINUS 503 



white, soft, somewhat fragile, equal, often twisted, fibrillose. Gills 

 white, then blackish, adnate, linear. Spores "black, lemon-shaped, 

 8-5-10 x 5-5-6-5/z. Cystidia vesiculose, cylindric-oval, 50-75 x 20- 

 27jit"Lange. Subcaespitose. Hollow trees, especially willow. Sept. 

 Oct. Bare. 



var. Boltonii Massee. Bolt. Hist. Fung. t. 26. James Bolton. 



Differs from the type in the repand, olivaceous p. Decaying pieces 

 of moist wood in cellars, cold kitchens, etc. Common. 



1646. C. flocculosus (DC.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 654, t. 667. 



Flocculosus, flocculose. 



P. 4-10 cm., dingy white, membranaceous, ovate, then expanded 

 and splitting in the direction of the gills, striate, covered over with 

 floccose scales. St. 6-10 x 1 cm., white, attenuated upwards from the 

 swollen base, finely silky under a lens. Gills violaceous, then fuscous 

 Hack, free, ventricose. Spores fuscous black, elliptical, 10 x 7-8ju,. 

 Cystidia cylindrical, 30x12 /LI. Solitary, rarely caespitose. Pastures, 

 and gardens. June Sept. Rare, (v.v.) 



1647. C. similis B. & Br. Similis, like. 

 P. 2-5-4 cm., pallid, disc darker, hygrophanous, ovato-campanulate, 



lineato-striate, clothed with acute separating warts which, are fuscous at 

 the apex. St. 6-7 cm. x 4-5 mm., white, broader at the base. Gills 

 brownish near the margin, adnate, attenuated behind, somewhat linear. 

 Spores "brown, elliptic-oval with a germ-pore, 8-9 x 5-6 /x. Cystidia 

 vesiculose, 30-36 x 15-25^" Rick. Trunks of dead trees. Sept. Rare. 



****P. at first clothed with distinct flocci, or lax villous down, 

 which fall off and disappear. Ring none. 



1648. C. exstinctorius (Bull.) Fr. Bull. Hist. Champ. Fr. t. 437, fig. 1. 



Exstinctorius, like an extinguisher. 



P. 27-5 cm., pale, disc darker, sublivid, submembranaceous, clavate, 

 then campanulate, at length rimosely split, expanded, scarcely revolute, 

 firm, floccoso- scaly with the universal veil, becoming bare from the margin 

 upwards; margin striate. St. 8-12 cm. x 5-6 mm., white, attenuated 

 upwards from the rooting base, smooth, base cottony. Gills white, then 

 fuscous blackish, reaching the st., narrow, lanceolate. Spores fuscous 

 purple, almond-shaped, 8-11 x 6-7 /u,, "mitriform" Rick. Generally 

 solitary. On the ground, at the base of ash trees, or in woods. May 

 Sept. Rare. 



1649. C. macrorhizus (Pers.) Rea. Cke. Illus. no. 657, t. 670, as 

 Coprinus fimetarius Fr. var. macrorhizus Pers. 



/ia/c/ao?, long; pl%a, root. 

 P. 2-5 cm., cinereous, or livid, then tinged fuscous, submembrana- 



