504 COPRINUS 



ceous, oval, then campanulate, 1-5-5 cm. high, at length revolute, ribbed 

 and furrowed from the apex to the margin, at first floccosely mealy with 

 the fugacious veil, becoming naked from the apex downwards; margin 

 thin, deliquescing. St. 2-6 cm. x 4-15 mm., white, equal, or slightly 

 attenuated upwards, continued into a long, thin, tapering root from the 

 base, 1-5-10 cm. long, somewhat silky. Gills white, then black, edge 

 white, free, ventricose. Flesh greyish, becoming white, very thin. 

 Spores black, almond-shaped, 11-15 x 8-9 /A. Cystidia vesiculose. 

 Smell often strong. Solitary, or caespitose. On decaying vegetable 

 matter, more rarely where dung-heaps have been. Woods, and home- 

 steads. July Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1650. C. cinereus (Schaeff.) Cke. Cke. lUus. no. 658, t. 671. 



Cinereus, ash colour. 



P. 1-4 cm., ashy grey, disc often fuscous, membranaceous, cylindrical, 

 1-5-4 cm. high, then campanulate, and at length revolute, densely 

 covered with white, fugacious flocci, then naked and striate. St. 4- 

 11 cm. x 3-6 mm., white, equal, or slightly attenuated upwards from 

 the thickened base, densely covered with white, fugacious, downward 

 pointing flocci. Gills white, then black, free, lanceolate. Flesh of p. 

 fuscous, white in the st., very thin at the margin. Spores black, pip- 

 shaped, 9-11 x 6-7 /z. Cystidia vesiculose, 60-70 x 30-40/z. Woods, 

 heaths, pastures, and manure beds. Feb. Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



1651. C. echinosporus Buller. e% 41/05, hedgehog; (nropd, seed. 

 P. 3 cm. broad, 18 mm. high, white, then grey, and finally dirty 



yellowish brown, oval, then conico-campanulate, becoming flattened, 

 and finally revolute and radially splitting along the lines of the 

 longest gills, at first clothed with short, dense down, then breaking 

 up into small, delicate, thin, fugacious tufts or scales; hairs some- 

 times branched, consisting of slender cells, 80-150 x 5-10/Li. St. 

 9 cm. x 3 mm. at base, white, slightly attenuated upwards, straight, 

 or flexuose, firm, adpressedly hairy. Gills blackish at maturity, ad- 

 nexed, very thin, very slightly wedge-shaped, auto-digesting on the 

 edge. Flesh brownish yellow, brownish at the apex of the p., becoming 

 finally dirty ochraceous. Spores black in the mass, very dark and 

 opaque under the microscope, finely warted, or echinulate, oval, more 

 or less pip-shaped, apex truncate, 9-11 x 5-7 /A, with an apical germ- 

 pore through which a transparent membrane often protrudes', basidia 

 of three lengths, surrounded by 3-4 paraphyses. Cystidia abundant, 

 conical, rounded at both ends, generally parallel-sided, rarely globose, 

 70-95 x 23-30/x, varying up to 105/z in length and 45-57 /A in diam. 

 Sticks dredged from a pool. Oct. Rare. 



C. fimetarius (Linn.) Fr. = Coprinus macrorhizus (Pers.) Rea, and 

 Coprinus cinereus (Schaeff.) Cke. 



