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thick, often rather flexuous, equal, smooth, pallid, ring im- 

 perfect, but its position always evident, hollow ; spores 

 elliptical, apiculate, 9-10 x 6 /A. 



Anellaria fimiputris, Karsten, Hattsv. i. p. 518; Sacc., 

 Syll. 6, n. 4561. 



Agaricus (Panaeolus) fimiputris, Cke., Hdbk., p. 218; Cke., 

 Illustr., pi. 626 (called Agaricus (Panaeolus) phalenarum by 

 mistake). 



Agaricus fimiputris, Bull., Champ., t. 66. 



On dung. Distinguished amongst the British species of 

 Anellaria by the very imperfect ring, which is usually only 

 indicated by a pale zone round the stem. In Bulliard's 

 plate, the pileus in one specimen is broadly expanded, 

 depressed in the centre and margin arched ; the gills show a 

 tinge of brownish-red, and there is a tuft of several spe- 

 cimens springing from the same point. 



Pileus rather fleshy, conical, then expanded, about 1 in. 

 across, subgibbous, even, glabrous, viscid, smoky-grey or 

 livid ; stem 24 in. long, 1 line thick, equal, glabrous, 

 becoming pale, with an annular zone above the middle; 

 gills as in Anellaria separata, but less ascending. Slenderer 

 than the last-named species, more fragile, and ring incom- 

 plete. (Fries.) 



PANAEOLUS. Fries, (fig. 3, p. 303.) 



Pileus slightly fleshy, never striated; gills adnexed, 

 ascending in a conical manner, slate-grey, mottled with the 

 black spores; stem central, smooth, without trace of a ring; 

 spores black. 



Panaeolus, Fries, Epicr., p. 234; Cke., Hdbk., p. 217; (in 

 both instances as a subgenus of Agaricus.} 



Distinguished amongst the Melanosporae by the even, non- 

 striate pileus and the absence of a more or less evident ring 

 on the stem. In Psathyrella the pileus is striate, and the gills 

 altogether black and not mottled ; in Anellaria there is a 

 ring on the stem, whereas in Coprinus the gills deliquesce 

 into a black, inky liquid at maturity. 



The pileus remains conical or campanula te, and does not 

 become expanded, hence the margins of the gills ascend and 

 form a hollow cone round the stem. 



