COPRINUS 509 



striate, smooth, rather dry. St. 10-15 cm. x 4 mm., whitish, equal, 

 somewhat flexuose, slightly downy, apex minutely striate. Gills whitish, 

 then tinged with brown, at length black. Flesh whitish, thin at the 

 margin. Spores blackish brown, elliptical, or sometimes subangular, 

 12-15 x 7-9/A. Cystidia "vesiculose, very large, conically flask- 

 shaped, up to 24/A broad" Lange. Caespitose. Naked soil. Oct. 

 Rare. 

 C. hydrophorus (Bull.) Quel. = Psathyrella hydrophora (Bull.) Fr. 



II. P. very thin, without a pellicle, at length opening into furrows 

 along the back of the gills, and becoming plicato-sulcate. St. thin, 

 fistulose. Gills melting away into very thin lines. 

 *St. annulate, or volvate. 



1669. C. dilectus Fr. (= Coprinus oblectus (Bolt.) Fr. sec. Quel.) Fr. 

 Icon. t. 140, fig. 2. Dilectus, beloved. 



P. 12*5 cm., whitish, then rosy, at length reddish, submembrana- 

 ceous, campanulate, obtuse, floccosely mealy, at length split, revolute, 

 and naked. St. 2-5-5 cm. x 24 mm., whitish, attenuated downwards, 

 sprinkled with red fibrils. Volva reduced to whitish, spreading, fuga- 

 cious squamules at the base. Gills white, then reddish fuscous, at length 

 black, free, somewhat lanceolate, crowded. Flesh white, reddish at the 

 disc, very thin at the margin. Spores black, elliptical, 10 x 6/u.. Cys- 

 tidia "ovate, vesiculose, average breadth 23/i" Lange. On the 

 ground. Burnt ground in beech woods, and bare soil. Nov. Rare. 

 (v.v.) 



1670. C. ephemeroides (BuU.) Fr. BuU. Hist. Champ. Fr. t. 582, fig. 1. 



e<?7/u,e/309, lasting but a day; elSo?, like. 



P. 4-6 mm., whitish, or livid, membranaceous, pellucid, cylindrical, 

 520 mm. high, then campanulate, sprinkled with superficial flocci, 

 plicato-sulcate, at length split and revolute. St. 2-3 cm. x 1-2 mm., 

 white, smooth, base bulbous and hairy. Ring white, very tender, mov- 

 able, narrow. Gills white, then black, free, distant from the st., very 

 tender. Spores black, subglobose, often somewhat angular, 7x5- 

 6/n. "Cystidia globose, 23-30^" Lange. On horse and cow dung. 

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



1671. C. bulbfflosus Pat. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. in, t. 7. 



Bulbillosus, with a little bulb. 



P. 5-10 cm., grey, disc yellow, convex, then expanded, at first 

 covered with white meal; margin striate, incurved. St. 10-20 x 1 mm., 

 white, smooth, base bulbous. Ring white, movable, median. Gills 

 grey, then black, narrow, 1 mm. broad. Flesh white, yellowish at the 

 disc, very thin. Spores black, subglobose, angular, 8-9 x 8/x. Horse 

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



