236 Coprinus. 



[Britzelmayri, Sacc. and Cub. ( = C. macrosporus, Brit.) P. and 

 s. covered with snow-white meal; g. adnexed; s. tall ; sp. 20 x 10 12. 



[albulus, Q. P. almost hemispherical, 5 mm. pellucid, striate, 

 pulverulent ; g. arcuately adnate ; s. 2 cm. filiform, pulverulent, lower 

 half with white flecks ; sp. 13 long. 



[divergent, Brit. P. parabolic, brownish then dark grey, deeply 

 striate; g. blackish-grey; s. pellucid, whitish ; sp. 10 11 x6 7. 



Intermediate between C. tomentosus and G. niveus. 



V. Volva and ring absent. Pileus covered with 

 glistening particles when young. 



micaceus, Fr. P. 3 6 cm. oval then canipan. glistening then 

 naked, sulcate, tawny ochre ; g. adnexed ; s. 5 8 cm. white, silky, 

 hollow. 



[marcescens, Karst. P. campan. sulcate, whitish at first, soon 

 dingy ochre, then pale sooty grey, disc brownish yellow, micaceous ; 

 g. adnexed ; s. white, silky ; sp. 6 9 x 46. 



Differs from C. micaceus in p. becoming sooty grey. 



aratus, B. P. 5 8 cm. narrowly elliptical then campan.-umber, 

 grooved up to disc; g. slightly adnexed; s. 10 15 cm. snow-white, 

 silky, hollow; sp. 15 x 1011. 



stercorarius, Fr. P. 2'5 3 cm. ovate then catnpan. edge striate, 

 densely covered with white glistening meal ; g. adnexed; s. 7 12cm. 

 white, hollow, minutely mealy at first ; sp. 14 15 x 8. 



C. niveus differs in tomentose p., and C. albus in sulcate p. 



radians, Fr. P. ovate then campan. 2*5 5 cm. edge striate, 

 disc granuloso-squamulose, tawny ochre then pale, glistening ; g. 

 slightly adnexed; s. 3 5 cm. white, smooth, base with dense radiating 

 strands of mycelium ; sp. 7 x 4. 



truncorum, Fr. P. globose at first then campan. glistening then 

 naked, tawny ochre, striate, 2 4 cm. ; g. free, rosy then black ; s. 

 7 10 cm. slender, white, glabrous, hollow ; sp. 12 14 x 6. 



Differs from C. micaceus in. p. being globose at first, and riot 

 sulcate, and in free, rosy g. 



[inamoenus, Karst. Foetid. P. subcylindrical then exp. blackish 

 with white micaceous scurf; g. fixed to a remote collar; s. hyaline, 

 at first downy, often rather wavy, several stems springing at intervals 

 from a prostrate mycelium ; sp. 7 11 x 4 6. 



[intermedius, Peuzig. P. campan. pallid, even, with dense 

 reddish micaceous scurf near apex ; g. free ; s. glabrous, tinged pink ; 

 sp. 7-59 x 5. 



[frustulosum, Sacc. P. campan. rather acute, even, covered 

 with reddish micaceous meal; g. free; s. conical then cylindrical, 

 white ; sp. 8 x 6. 



