COPRINUS. 315 



variable in size, sulcate, at first cylindrical, rather flat at the 

 apex, clothed with fugacious ad pressed or slightly recurved 

 feathery scales ; then conico-campanulate ; at length inverted 

 with the margin split and rolled back. Gills black, dotted 

 with pellucid conic processes and elliptic black spores. 

 Stem sometimes 5 in. high, |-^- in. thick, clothed near 

 the apex with thick patent down, near the base with 

 ad pressed scales, very fragile, hollow, without any cottony 

 fibres. (Berk.) 



Far. macrorhiza. Fr., Hym. Bur., p. 324 ; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 228 ; Cke., Illustr. pi. 670. 



Agaricua macrorhizus, Pers., Syn., p. 398. 



Pileus at first with feathery squamules ; stem short, 

 villose, rooting, sometimes more or less marginately sub- 

 bulbous ; spores 13-14 x 8-9. 



On dung. Pileus pale and smaller than in the typical form, 

 stem shorter, with a more or less elongated rooting base. 



On a hot-bed, penetrating through the superincumbent 

 mould and attached to the dung beneath by the long 

 attenuated root. Pileus f in. broad, nearly 1 in. high, 

 scaly, the scales sometimes forming a beautiful radiated 

 crown at the apex, pale brown above, the margin greyish, 

 striate. Gills brown, with a slight white border, close, 

 free, very slightly ventricose, -|- in. broad. Stem 3 in. 

 high, 3 lines thick at the base, -|- in. at the apex, straight, 

 very downy towards the base, less so upwards, fistulose ; 

 root 21 in. long. (Berk.) 



Coprirms tomentosus. Fr. 



Pileus 1-1^ in. high, submembranaceous, cylindrical, then 

 conical, afterwards splitting and expanded, striate, floccoso- 

 tomentose, pale-grey, the velvety floccose layer becoming 

 torn into persistent patches on the expansion of the pileus ; 

 gills free, narrow, brownish, then blackish brown ; stem 

 about 2 in. long, 2 lines thick, equal, velvety, greyish, 

 hollow. 



Coprinus tomentosus, Fr., *Epicr., p. 246 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 

 228 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 672 A (after Bolton). 



Agaricus tomentosus, Bulliard, t. 138. 



On dung and in rich pastures. Pileus cylindrical, then 

 narrowly pyramidal, at length expanded and more or less 



