514 COPRINUS 



hyaline, equal, flexuose, silky, villose, springing from a small, Hawkish 

 brown sclerotium. Gills white, then purplish black, free, narrow, edge 

 micaceous. Flesh very thin. Spores black, elliptical, 12/z. On dung, 

 and decaying vegetable matter. Pastures. May Dec. Uncommon. 



1689. C. stellaris Quel. Quel. Soc. bot. xxiv, t. 5, fig. 6. 



Stellaris, starry. 



P. 1-2 mm., snow white, then greyish, ovate, then campanulate, 

 striate, at length split in a star-like manner, crowned with minute, 

 pellucid vesicles, the remains of the universal veil. St. 1-2 cm. x 1 mm., 

 hyaline, velvety with long, silky white hairs. Gills greyish, then brown, 

 adnate, narrow. Spores for a long time hyaline, then brownish bistre, 

 elliptical, 8p. Fox, cow, and human dung. Caves, and pastures. 

 April July. Rare. 



1690. C. Friesii Quel. Quel. Jur. et Vosg. i, t. 23, fig. 5. 



Elias Fries, the eminent Swedish mycologist. 

 P. 1-1-5 cm., snow white, then striate and violaceous at the margin, 

 at length grey, ovate elliptical, then revolute, floccosely mealy. St. 

 5-20 x 1 mm., white, equal, pulverulent, base surrounded by a floccose 

 collar. Gills white, then violaceous, at length brownish black, free, 

 narrow, crowded. Flesh white, very thin. Spores brownish black, 

 angularly globose, 8-10-5 x 6-7-5/1. Dead grass stems. Aug. Oct. 

 Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1691. C. tigrinellus Boud. Boud. Icon. t. 139. 



Tigrinettus, spotted like a tiger. 



P. 1 cm., snow white, covered with small, scattered, blackish flocci, 

 especially at the disc, becoming rosy towards the striate margin and at 

 length greyish, oblong, then slightly campanulate, at length revolute 

 at the margin, pulverulent. St. 2-3 cm. x 1-2 mm., white, equal, 

 smooth ; base somewhat marginately bulbous, velvety, and often with 

 blackish flocci like the p. Gills white, then brownish, free, narrow. Flesh 

 white, thin. Spores brownish black, fuliginous under the microscope, 

 broadly elliptical, 11 x 7fj,. Dead leaves of Carex riparia, Carex 

 paludosa, more rarely of Iris Pseudacorus. July Aug. Uncommon. 



1692. C. Gibbsii Massee & Crossland. 



Thomas Gibbs, a Yorkshire mycologist. 



P. -5 mm., pale ochraceous, disc darker, hemispherical, then ex- 

 panded, striate, smooth, minutely atomate. St. 4-7 mm., white, pellu- 

 cid, smooth, attached by a few white strands of mycelium. Gills 

 adnate, 57 in number. Spores purplish brown, subcircular, com- 

 pressed, 8-9 fj, in diameter, 5/u. thick. Cystidia pyriform. Horse, and 

 sheep dung. Nov. Uncommon. 



