COPRINUS. 317 



snow-white floccose-down ; gills slightly attached, narrow, 

 becoming blackish ; stem 1^3 in. high, subequal, or slightly 

 attenuated upwards, villose, white, hollow; spores 16 x 

 11-13 /x. 



Coprinus niveus, Fries, Epicr., p. 246 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 228 ; 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 672 B. 



On dung, especially of horses. Distinguished by snow- 

 white colour, persistently tomentose pileus, and small size. 

 Coprinus narcoticus is distinguished by its strong smell of 

 opium, and C. stercorarius by the dense micaceous mealy 

 coat covering the pileus at first ; it is also larger in every 

 part. 



Pileus ^1 in. across, campanulate, at length expanded 

 and depressed with the margin rolled back, clothed with 

 dense scaly meal ; the margin striate, very thin and delicate. 

 Gills narrow, free, black, subventricose. Stem 2 in. or more 

 high, 1 line thick, thickest at the base, sericeo-squamulose, 

 hollow, fragile, splitting longitudinally. (Berk.) 



Coprinus cothurnatus. Godey. 



Pileus exceedingly thin, conico-campanulate, then ex- 

 panded, densely furfnraceous, becoming umbonate and 

 unequally split, reddish- white ; stem hollow, attenuated 

 upwards, white, squamulose, base squamuloso-vaginate, about 

 1| in. long, 1-2 lines thick ; gills free, sublanceolate, crowded, 

 white, then flesh-coloured, at length blackish. 



Coprinus cothurnatus, Godey, in Gillet's Champ, de France, 

 p. 605, with a fig.; Sacc., Syll., vol. v., n. 4410; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 228. 



On cow-dung in pastures. 



The English specimens referred to this species are yel- 

 lowish, the pileus about 1 in. across, stem 2 in. long. 



***** Micacei. 



Coprinus micaceus., Fr. 



Pileus 1| 2^ in. across, submembranaceous, elliptical, then 

 campanulate, coarsely striate, disc even, ochraceous-tan, disc 

 darker, margin usually more or less repand; when young 

 densely covered with glistening minute crystals of oxalate 

 of lime, at length naked, when fully developed rimoso- 



