506 COPRINUS 



and irregularly split, densely furfuraceous. St. 3-4 cm. x 2-4 mm., 

 white, attenuated upwards, squamulose, base sheathed with white, 

 fibrillose squamules. Gills white, then flesh coloured, at length blackish, 

 free, sublanceolate, crowded. Flesh very thin. Spores black, ellip- 

 tical. Cow dung. Pastures. Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 



*****P. covered with small micaceous scales, or granules which 

 fall off and disappear. Ring none. 



1656. C. micaceus (Bull.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 660, t. 673. 



Micaceus, glittering. 



P. 36 cm., yellow ferruginous, yellowish livid, disc darker, at length 

 date-brown-fuscous, ferruginous ochraceous when dry, submembrana- 

 ceous, oval, then campanulate, undulato-lobed, rimosely split, striate, 

 at first covered with glistening micaceous particles, soon naked and be- 

 coming sulcate, disc even ; margin plicate and irregular. St. 5-20 cm. x 

 4-8 mm., white, or whitish, equal, silky, often curved, fibrillose, be- 

 coming smooth. Gills white, or isabelline, then brown, or livid at the 

 edge, and finally fuscous blackish, adnexed, lanceolate. Flesh pallid, 

 thin at the disc. Spores fuscous black, pip-shaped, or elliptical with 

 a long apiculus, 9-10 x 5)n. Cystidia cylindric-oblong, apex rounded, 

 85-140 x 48-75/z. Edible. Densely caespitose. Stumps, old posts, 

 and buried wood. Woods, pastures, and hedgerows. Jan. Dec. 

 Common, (o.v.) 



1657. C. truncorum (Schaeff.) Fr. Schaeff. Icon. t. 6. 



Truncorum, of tree trunks. 



P. 24 cm., globose, then campanulate, ferruginous ochraceous, 

 densely covered with micaceous meal, soon naked, striate, not becoming 

 sulcate. St. 710 x 3-4 mm., white, very fragile, somewhat striate, 

 smooth. Gills white, then rosy, at length black, free. Spores fuscous, 

 elliptical, 12-14 x6/z. Caespitose. Rotten willow trunks. Uncommon. 



1658. C. frustulosum Sacc. Sacc. Myc. Ven. Spec. t. 6, figs. 10-14, 

 from Atti della Soc. Ven.-Trent. n. 



Frustulosum, consisting of small fragments. 



P. 3-6 cm., covered up to the yellow umbo with rosy red micaceous meal, 

 ovate, 1 cm. high, then campanulate, umbonate, even. St. 1-5- 

 12-5 cm. x 4-6 mm., white, glistening, very brittle, conical, then 

 cylindrical, smooth, apex mealy. Gills reddish white, then black, free. 

 Spores 8 x 6/x. Caespitose. Amongst long grass near a post, and 

 under Rhododendra. Sept. Rare. 



1659. C. aratus B. & Br. Cke. Illus. no. 661, t. 674. apba>, I plough. 

 P. 5-7-5 cm., umber, submembranaceous, campanulate, then ex- 

 panded, deeply sulcate up to the darker, usually wrinkled disc, sprinkled 

 with large micaceous particles, revolute in decay. St. 10-15 cm. x 

 46 mm., snow white, attenuated upwards from the slightly bulbous 



