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even ; gills at first attached, but soon separating from the 

 stem so as to appear free, but still connected at the base as 

 if by a slight collar, hence instead of " lamellis liberis," it 

 should be " secedentibus" (Berk.) 



Coprinus radians. Fr. 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, membranaceous, ovato-campanulate, 

 glistening with minute crystals of oxalate of lime, disc 

 granuloso-squamulose ; margin striate, yellowish-fulvous, 

 becoming pale, sometimes becoming subdiscoid ; gills about 

 1| lines broad, slightly attached to the stem, pale, then 

 violet-black; stem 1-1^ in. long, equal, smooth, even, 

 hollow, whitish, furnished at the base with radiating strands 

 of mycelium ; spores violet-black, elliptical, 7 x 4 /A. 



Coprinus radians, Fries, Epicr., p. 248 ; Cooke, Hdbk., p. 

 229 ; Cooke, Illustr., pi. 676 A. 



Agaricus radians, Desmaz., Ann. Sci. Nat. 19, t. 10, f. 1. 



On damp plastered walls, rather small, solitary or sub- 

 caespitose, pileus yellow-fulvous, subdiscoid, becoming pale ; 

 stem short, incurved from the position of growth. 



Pileus 2 in. broad, gills free, numerous, at first white; 

 stem 1^- in. high, 2 lines thick, cylindric, fistulose, almost 

 equal ; curved in consequence of its vertical place of growth, 

 naked, smooth, furnished with a radiating base 2 in. broad. 

 (Desmazieres.) 



The fungus called Lycoperdon radiatum, Sowerby, t. 145, 

 is the very young stage of the present species. 



Coprinus papillatus. Fr. 



Pileus ^ in. across, elliptical, then campanulate, then 

 often splitting and almost plane or even upturned, but 

 the disc remaining prominent, striate, greyish-furfuraceous, 

 centre livid smooth-colour, rough with minute papillae; 

 gills free but close to the stem, narrow, black ; stem about 1 in. 

 longj slender, equal, hollow, white, hyaline except at the 

 base; spores 15 x 7 p.. 



Coprinus papillatus, Fries, Epicr., p. 248; Cooke, Hdbk., 

 229; Cooke, Illustr., pi. 676 B. 



Agaricus papillatus, Batsch, fig. 78. 



On the ground, also on dung. Minute, but rather per- 

 sistent. 



