COPRINUS 505 



1652. C. tomentosus (Bull.) Fr. Bolt. Hist. Fung. t. 156. 



Tomentosus, downy. 



P. 1-5-4 cm., grey white, submembranaceous, cylindrical, 3-4 cm. 

 high, then conical, or narrowly pyramidal, not expanded, striate, at 

 length longitudinally cracked, entirely covered with a greyish felty veil, 

 which becomes torn into scales during expansion. St. 57-5 cm. x 4 

 6 mm., greyish, subequal, velvety, base thickened, rooting. Gills 

 whitish, then fuscous blackish, free, linear, edge at first white-micaceous. 

 Flesh white, very thin at the margin. Spores "reddish brown, trans- 

 parent, 25 x 7-8/*. Cystidia vesiculose-bottle-shaped, 30-40 x 20- 

 30 fj," Eick. On dung. Rich pastures, roadsides, and woods. Sept. 

 Uncommon. 



1653. C. niveus (Pers.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 659, t. 672, fig. B. 



Niveus, snow white. 



Entirely snow white. P. 1-5-5 cm., submembranaceous, ovate, soon 

 campanulato-expanded, at length revolute, split and torn, mealy 

 floccose, often squamulose. St. 2-5-7-5 cm. x 3-6 mm., attenuated 

 upwards, very fragile, densely covered with fugacious, upward pointing 

 flocci, becoming smooth. Gills white, then flesh colour, and finally 

 blackish, adnexed, narrow. Flesh white, very thin at the margin. 

 Spores black, broadly elliptical, 15 x 10-12/*,, often apiculate at one 

 end. Cystidia vesiculose. On dung, especially horse. Woods, and 

 pastures. May Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



var. astroideus Fr. aa-r^p, star; elSos, shape. 



Differs from the type in the squamose, grey p. becoming inverted and 

 smooth, and in the elongate, thin, smooth st., stellate at the base. Woody 

 places. 



1654. C. roseotinctus Rea. Roseus, rose; tinctus, coloured. 

 P. 58 mm.., fuscous, densely powdered with rose coloured meal, mem- 



branaceous, cylindrical, 7-11 mm. high, then campanulate, at length 

 revolute, umbonate, silky, striate, becoming sulcate along the back 

 of the gills; margin torn. St. 2-5 cm. x 2-3 mm., white, at first densely 

 powdered with deep rose coloured meal, then only sparingly powdered 

 near the apex at maturity, equal, becoming elongate and flexuose; 

 base bulbous, white floccose. Gills white, then black, adnexed, 1- 

 1-5 mm. broad, deliquescent. Flesh greyish, thin. Spores black, pip- 

 shaped, slightly apiculate, 9-11 x 5-6 p. Ash plantations, and under 

 trees. Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1655. C. cothurnatus Godey. Gillet, Champ. Fr. Hym. t. 175. 



icoQopvos, a high hunting boot. 



P. 2-3 cm., membranaceous, dingy white, reddish, flesh coloured (or 

 yellowish sec. Massee), conico-campanulate, then expanded, umbonate, 



