Melanosporee 



loose cottony flocci which rub off easily, the upper half smooth or Coprinus. 

 slightly farinaceous. Spores broadly elliptical, 12.7/x long. 



Plant very fragile, 4-6 in. high. Pileus 8-12 lines broad. Stem I 

 line thick at the base. Rich ground and dung. Sandlake. August. 

 (Plate IV, fig. 15-18.) Allied to C. coopertus. Peck, 24th Rep. N.Y. 

 State Bot. 



West Virginia. 1881-1885, Mt. Gretna, Pa. July to October. 

 Mcllvaine. 



I have seldom found it, though at times it was quite common about 

 stables in West Virginia. It has good mushroom flavor and is edible. 

 It is stately, attracting attention by its peculiar cap. 



C. plica'tilis Fr. plico, to fold. PileilS I in. broad, dusky-brown 

 then bluish- a ;ay-cinereous, disk darker, dusky-brown or reddish, oval- 

 cylindrical then campanulate, soon expanded, opening into furrows, 

 sulcate-plicate, for the most part smooth, disk broad, even, at length 

 depressed. Stem 1-3 in. long, fistulose, thin, equal, even, smooth, pal- 

 lid, somewhat pellucid. Gills remote from the stem and adnate to a col- 

 lar which is formed from the dilated apex of the stem, distant, gray- 

 blackish. Fries. 



Very tender and fragile, but when scorched by the sun not melting 

 into fluid. Very variable in stature and size. Stevenson. 



Spores 12 1 4x8-1 o/* Massee; broadly elliptic, 5ft long, M.J.B.; 

 n-13/A long, 8-io/u. broad Peck, Rep. 50. 



Common in rich pastures, lawns, roadsides, etc. May to October. 



West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Mcllvaine. 



A neat little fungus often found in great plenty. Though small it is 

 nevertheless edible and must be written with its edible companions. 







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