COPRINUS. 355 



(2^ lin.) thick, fistulose, attenuated upwards, slightly bulbous at Coprinus. 

 the base, straight, smooth, or rather minutely silky, snow-white, 

 umber within. Gills separating, narrow, attenuated at either end, 

 deep rich brown then black. 



Solitary, tall. A magnificent species, allied to C. micaceus. Grooved like 

 A^\irici/s hiascens. The gills are at first attached, but so slightly that they 

 easily part from the stem, so as to appear free ; but they are still connected at 

 the base, as if there were a slight collar. 



In a hollow tree. King's Cliffe, 1860, &c. May. 



Name aro, to plough. Sulcate. B. & Br. n. 927. 1956*. C. Hbk. n. 

 467. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 326. 



16. C. radians Fr. Pileus yellow-tawny, becoming pale, 

 membranaceous, ovate then campanulate, micaceous, gramdoso- 

 scaly at the disc, striate at the margin. Stem fistulose, equal, 

 naked, fibrilloso-rooting at the base. Gills reaching the stem, 

 somewhat linear, white then violaceous-black. 



Small, somewhat caespitose. Lycoperdon radiatum Sow. t. 145 represents 

 its early stage, 



On plaster walls. Uncommon. July. 



Pileus about 5 cent. (2 in.) broad. Stem 4-5 cent. (1^-2 in.) long. Spores 

 7x8 mk. W.G.S. Name radians, radiating. From the habit of the base. 

 Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 326. Berk. Out. p. 179. C. Hbk. n. 468. S. Mycol. 

 Scot. Supp. Scot. Nat. 1881, /. 35. n. 2161. Agaricus Desmaz in Ann. Sc. 

 Nat, 13. t. 10. f. i. 



17. C. papillatus Fr. Pileus 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) broad, fus- 

 cous, disc darker, membranaceous, ovate then campanulate, at 

 length flattened and revolute, torn, striate, scurfy and beset with 

 minute warts which are more crowded on the disc. Stem 2.5 

 cent, (i in.) long, 2 mm. (i lin.) thick, fistulose, equal, smooth 

 except at the base, hyaline-pellucid^ commonly pruinose at the 

 apex with the spores. Gills few, free, but reaching the stem, 

 blackish. 



The smallest of the group, growing in troops, and less fugacious than the 

 others. It approaches very near to the Veliformes, but is allied to C. mi- 

 caceus, &c., in the covering of the pileus. Var. oxygena : pileus whitish, in- 

 clining to grey and as well as the stem sparingly flocculose. 



On dung and on the ground. Shrewsbury. 



Name papilla, a teat. From the minute points on the pileus. Fr. Mon- 

 ogr. i. /. 462. Hym. Eur. p. 326. B. 6* Br. n. 1958. Agaricus Batsch 



/. 78. 



****** Qiabrati. Pileus smooth, &c. 



18. C. alternatus Fr. Pileus 4 cent. (i% in.) broad, chalky- 

 pallid, pale umber at the disc, somewhat fleshy, hemispherical, 



