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coming naked when expanded, up to 1 in. across. Gills white 

 then blackish. (Fries.) 



Coprinus macrocephalus. Fr. 



Pileus up to in. high and broad when expanded, cylin- 

 drical, then campanulatn-expanded, ashy-grey, disc brownish, 

 sprinkled with paler pointed scales, margin slightly striate, 

 flesh rather thick for the size of the species ; gills quite free, 

 up to 1 line broad, at length black; stem 1| 2 in. long, 1 line 

 or more thick, subequal, dirty white, clothed with white 

 down and long free fibres, base strigose, hollow ; spores 

 broadly elliptical or obliquely pip-shaped, 11-13 X 7-8 p.; 

 cystidia elliptical, large, numerous. 



Coprinus macrocephalus, Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 329 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 231 ; Cke., Illustr. pi. 682' A. 



Agaricus macrocephalus, Berk., Eng. Flora, vol. v. p. 122. 



On putrid dung, Subcaespitose. Distinguished amongst 

 the small grey species of Coprinus by the pointed squamules 

 adorning the pileus, and more especially by the long loose 

 fibrils on the stem. 



Pileus f in. broad, ^ in. high, linear when young, then 

 cylindrico-campanulate, the margin slightly spread out, 

 adorned with elegant adpressed or patent scales, the remains 

 of the veil ; apex brown, shaped off into slate colour on the 

 margin, scarcely at all pubescent. Gills linear, perfectly 

 free, at length black, clothed with pellucid spiculae. Stem 

 1-2 in. high, 2 lines thick, ascending, dirty white, fistulose, 

 clothed with short cottony down, and with longer, sometimes 

 deflexed, loose fibres, strigose at the base, somewhat attenu- 

 ated upwards and stained with the black elliptic spores. A 

 very distinct species, apparently near A. lagopus ( = Co- 

 prinus lagopus~). (Berk.) 



Coprinus nycthemerus. Fr. 



Pileus i-| in. when expanded, membranaceous, at first 

 conico-cylindrical, then expanded and splitting at the margin, 

 floccosely-mealy, radiately plicate, margin striate, striae fur- 

 cate, then naked, grey, disc tawny; gills free, at length 

 distant from the stem, narrow, blackish ; stem 2-3 in. long, 

 equal, hollow, flaccid, whitish, glabrous ; spores 9 x 6 p.. 



