COPRINTJS 511 



1676. C. lagopides Karst. Lagopus, the species G. lagopus, elSos, like. 

 P. 4-7 cm., whitish, disc cinereous, membranaceous, campanulate, 



sulcate, then splitting, disc naked, clothed elsewhere with free, white, 

 pointed, feathery squamules; margin subrevolute. St. 17cm. x 3- 

 5 mm., slightly attenuated above, hollow, densely fioccose. Gills black, 

 free, crowded, linear. Spores black, ovoid, 6-8x5-6/u,, basidia 4-spored. 

 On the ground. Dec. Rare. 



1677. C. narcoticus (Batsch) FT. Cke. Illus. no. 668, t. 680, fig. B. 



vapKioTiKos, making numb. 



P. 2-3 cm., white, or greyish, very tender, pellucid, conico-cylin- 

 drical, villose with white fioccose, fugacious, recurved scales, then flat- 

 tened, naked, striate. St. 4-5 cm. x 2 mm., white, pellucid, equal, or 

 attenuated upwards, villosely fibrillose, becoming smooth. Gills white, 

 then blackish, free, reaching the st., narrow. Flesh white, very thin at 

 the margin. Spores blackish brown, elliptical, 11 x 5/n, "with a 

 hyaline epispore. Cystidia subglobose, 20-40 /u," Lange. Smell very 

 strong, foetid, narcotic-alkaline. Manure heaps. Oct. 



1678. C. macrocephalus Berk. Cke. Illus. no. 670, t. 682, fig. A. 



/i,a/c/909, long; K(f>a\rj, head. 



P. 12-15 mm., ashy grey, or slate colour, disc brown, submembra- 

 naceous, cylindrical, 18 mm- high, then cylindrico-campanulate, 

 sprinkled with adpressed, or patent, pointed scales; margin slightly 

 striate. St. 2-5-5 cm. x 4 mm., dirty white, attenuated upwards, 

 clothed with short cottony down, and with longer, sometimes defiexed, 

 loose fibres, base strigose. Gills at length black, quite free, linear, 1- 

 2 mm. broad. Flesh whitish, thin at the margin. Spores black, 

 "broadly elliptical, or obliquely pip-shaped, 11-15 x 7-9 /x" Massee. 

 Subcaespitose. Putrid dung. March Sept. Rare. 



1679. C. nycthemerus Fr. Bull. Hist. Champ. Fr. t. 542, fig. D, as 

 Agaricus ephemerus. vv%0ijfj,epov, a day and night. 



P. 8-15 mm., grey, disc fuscous, or tawny, very tender, cylindrico- 

 conical, 12-15 mm. high, soon opening into furrows and flattened, 

 furfuraceo-fiocculose, at length naked and forked-striate. St. 4 cm. x 

 1-2 mm., whitish cream colour, becoming pale white, equal, flaccid, 

 smooth, base slightly bulbous. Gills ochraceous cream colour, then 

 brownish black, free, at length remote, narrow, linear. Spores "brownish 

 black, pruniform ovoid, 10/x," Quel. Subcaespitose. On dung. Pas- 

 tures, and gardens. July Oct. Uncommon. 



1680. C. cordisporus Gibbs. Lange, Dansk. Bot. Ark. bind 2, no. 3, 

 t. 1, fig. g. Cor, the heart; (nropd, seed. 



P. 3-9 mm., whitish, or pallid ochraceous, disc sprinkled with tawny, 

 furfuraceous papillae, membranaceous, cylindric-ovate, 3-8 mm. high, 



