COPRINUS 517 



1700. C. filiformis B. & Br. Cke. Illus. no. 674, t. 686, fig. B. 



Filum, a thread ; forma, shape. 



P. 1-2 mm., grey, shining with white mealy particles, very tender, 

 cylindrical, 1-2 mm. high, striate. St. 10-15 x -5 mm., white, 

 hyaline, sprinkled with a few, short, delicate hairs. Gills "blackish, 

 adnate, linear" W. G. Sm. Spores "subglobose, 5 x 4/z," Massee. 

 On the ground. Woods, and pastures. April Sept. Uncommon 

 (v.v.) 



****P. always smooth. Ringless. 



1701. C. hemerobius Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 675, t. 687, fig. A. 



ri/Aepa, a day; /3io9, life. 



P. 1-5-3 cm., greyish, disc and surface of ribs date brown, ovate, then 

 campanulate, radiately sulcate up to the even, not depressed disc, smooth. 

 St. 5-9 cm. x 3-4 mm., pallid, fragile, attenuated upwards, smooth. 

 Gills pallid, then blackish, adnate to the dilated apex of the St., attenuated 

 at the margin, linear, 2-4 mm. broad. Flesh white, very thin at the 

 margin. Spores black, elliptical, with a hyaline apical or oblique 

 germ-pore, 10-11 x 5/z. Cystidia "bottle-shaped, or cylindrical- 

 conical, 60-70 x 15-20 /x" Rick. Pastures, and woods, especially 

 beech. Sept. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



C. hiascens (Fr.) Quel. = Psathyrella hiascens Fr. 



C. disseminatus (Pers.) Quel. = Psathyrella disseminata (Pers.) Fr. 



1702. C. eburneus Quel. Quel. As. fr. (1883), t. 6, fig. 9. 



Eburneus, white as ivory. 



Entirely white and shining. P. 3-4 cm., elliptic campanulate, firm, 

 striate, polished, besprinkled with small, recurved, fugacious flocci. 

 St. 5 cm. x 6-8 mm., firm, smooth. Gills white, then deep bay, free, 

 lanceolate, tardily deliquescing. Spores violet, almond-shaped, 14/x. 

 Mountainous pastures. July Sept. Rare. 



1703. C. Schroeteri Karst. J. Schroter, the Silesian mycologist. 



P. 1 cm., dingy ochraceous, becoming pale, at length sooty grey, 

 elliptical, then expanded, sulcate, smooth. St. 1-2 cm., minutely 

 pulverulent at first, slightly striate upwards. Gills brown, free. Spores 

 black, angularly subglobose, 13-15 x 8-12ju,. On cow dung. Rare. 



var. proximellus (Karst.) Massee. 



Proximellus, somewhat nearly related. 



Differs from the type in the elliptical spores, 10-13 x 5-7 JLI. 

 Manured ground. Rare. 



