Agaricacese 



Coprinus. it occurs in successive crops until stopped by severe frost. It is com- 

 mon in Europe and over the United States. 



The flavor is higher than that of C. comatus. It should be cooked 

 as soon as gathered, and kept in a cool place until needed. 



Analysis shows the following: 



Two separate, freshly-gathered lots of this species were examined. 

 The one () contained six young small specimens weighing 5.5 grams, 

 or .9 gram each; the other (<$>) contained eight mushrooms weighing 

 12 grams, or 1.5 grams each. An analysis gave: 



a. b. 



Water 92-3 1 percent. 94.42 percent. 



Total solids 7.69 5.58 



The dry substance contained: 



Total nitrogen 4.68 4.77 



Ether extract 3.1 5.7 



Crude fiber 9.3 



Ash 16.8 20.1 



Lafayette B. Mendel in American Journal of Physiology. 



C. fusces'cens (Schaeff.) Fr. fuscus, dark or swarthy. Pileus I 

 l/ in. across, submembranaceous, ovate, expanded, dull, disk rather 

 fleshy, even or cracked into squamules, grayish-brown, disk reddish. 

 Gills adfixed, blackish-umber. Stem 4-5 in. long, about K in. thick, 

 equal, fragile, hollow, subfibrillose. Ring indistinct or absent, whitish. 

 Mas see. 



Smaller and more slender than Coprinus atramentarius. Pileus 

 brownish-gray, disk becoming reddish, not sprinkled with micaceous 

 particles, but at first covered with a mealy bloom. Gills adnexed, 

 attenuated from the stem to the margin, deliquescent. Fries. 



Spores elliptical, pointed at the ends, iox6/* Massee; iox5/x. W.G.S. 



Solitary and in tufts. On stumps, trunks, etc. May to October. 



West Philadelphia, Pa., Mcllvaine. 



C. fuscescens is tender, delicate and of excellent flavor. In this it 

 ranks with C. atramentarius 



C. macro'spoms Pk. Pileus ovate, then expanded, rimose-striate 

 (cracked in lines), obscurely floccose-squamulose, white, the small even 

 brownish disk scaly. Lamellae crowded, free, white then black. Stem 



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