510 COPRINUS 



1672. C. Hendersonii Berk. Cke. Illus. no. 668, t. 680, fig. A. 



J. L. Henderson. 



P. 2-12 mm., cinereous, disc brownish, membranaceous, cylindrical, 

 then ovali-campanulate, at length plane, minutely granular under a 

 lens, striate half way up; margin folded. St. 2-5-4 cm. x 1-2 mm., 

 white, attenuated upwards, nearly or quite smooth. Eing white, cup- 

 shaped, more or less distant, permanent, fixed. Gills white, then black, 

 free, narrow, rather distant, edge white. Flesh white, very thin. Spores 

 black, "spherical, apiculate, 8-9 /A" Quel. Hotbeds, and horse dung. 

 Feb. Sept. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1673. C. Bresadolae Schulz. 



L'Abbe J. Bresadola, the eminent mycologist of Trieste. 

 P. 8 mm., greyish white, disc tinged brown, membranaceous, sub- 

 cylindrical, 17 mm. high, at first covered with a very thin universal 

 veil, which does not break up into squamules, but splits from apex 

 to base, and becomes obliterated. St. 12 cm. x 4 mm., white, tapering 

 upwards, smooth. Ring loose, deciduous. Gills black, edge white. 

 Spores black, cylindrical, ends rounded, 12-17 x 6/z. Gregarious. 

 Worked wood, and on the ground amongst rotten branches. Sept. 

 Rare. 



1674. C. volvaceo-minimus Crossland. 



Volvaceus, having a volva ; minimus, least. 



P. 4-6 mm., grey, inclining to cinereous, disc darker, membrana- 

 ceous, ovate, then campanulate, sprinkled with white squamules, striate; 

 margin at length split and reflexed. St. 2-2-5 cm. x 1 mm., white, 

 hyaline, apex slightly swollen, smooth; bulbous base furnished with a 

 distinct, sheathing, persistent ring, or collar, half the width of the p., 

 and finally reflexed. Gills becoming blackish purple, almost free, narrow, 

 attenuated at each end. Spores blackish purple, subglobose, 6-7 /z, 

 minutely apiculate. Manure heaps. Rare. 



**P. clothed with superficial, separating floccules. 

 Gills free. Ringless. 



1675. C. lagopus Fr. Saund. & Sm. Myc. 111. t. 19. 



\ayo)<;, a hare; TTOVS, foot. 



P. 2-5 cm., whitish, or greyish, disc livid, very tender, pellucid, 

 cylindrical, then campanulate, covered with white, fugacious fibrils, 

 then naked, flattened and split, radiato-sulcate. St. 5-12-5 cm. x 

 2-6 mm., white, attenuated upwards rarely at the base, very fragile, 

 everywhere white woolly. Gills white, then black, free, at length remote, 

 linear. Flesh white, very thin. Spores black, elliptical, 10-12 x 6- 

 7 fj,. Cystidia "large, vesiculose, ovate, or oblong, about 12-25 /u, 

 broad" Lange. Rich soil, rotten wood, sawdust, and on dung. Woods, 

 and pastures. July Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



