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FUNGI OF ICELAND 555 
598. R. Queletii Fries, in Quélet: Les Champ. du Jura, p. 185, 
€ 24; £ 6. 
Hallormstadir [P.L.]. — On grassy spots in birch copses. Not rare. 
Pileus 5—7 cm broad, plano-convex, margin thin, at length sulcate, 
pellicle scarcely viscid, mealy, purple-violet (d 1), centre almost black (c. 3). 
— Flesh white, but purple beneath the separable pellicle, at first fairly 
firm, then soft, odour none, taste acrid. — Stipe cylindrical, pale purplish 
red (m 4), mealy. — Gills pale, becoming greyish white, exuding drops 
from the edge of gills when fresh. — Spore powder greyish white, spores 
white, subspherical, echinulate 8—9X7—8 u. 
Coprinariaceae. 
Coprinus (Persoon) Fries. 
599. C. velox Godey, in Gillets Les champignons de la France, 
Hyménomycètes, t. 175. 
Seydisfjöröur, Norötünga [P. L.. — On horsedung and cowdung. 
Pileus 4mm broad, skin-like, margin sulcate, centre squamulose or 
scurfy, grey. — Stipe 2 cm long, '/2mm thick, white, base hairy. — Gills 
grey, thin, reaching the stem. — Spores ellipsoidal, brown, 8—9X5 u. 
600. C. ephemerus (Bulliard) Fries, Epicr., p. 252. 
Agaricus ephemerus Bulliard, Hist. champ., t. 128. 
Reykjavik and Seydisfjöröur [P. L.]J. — On horsedung and cowdung. 
Pileus 1—1.5 cm broad, at first ovoid, then expanded with split 
raised margin, skin-like, covered with scattered short hairs, greyish yellow 
with a brownish centre. — Stipe 3—5 cm long, 1—1.5 mm thick, hollow, 
whitish grey, mealy, base hairy. — Spores dark-brown, ellipsoidal, 10— 
13X7 u. 
601. C. tigrinellus Boudier, Icones mycologicae, t. 139. 
On stems and leaves of dead and living species of Carex in wet 
bogs about Pingvallavatn [P. L.). 
Pileus at first ovoid with somewhat pointed summit, 1 cm high 
and broad, then expanded with revolute split margin, white, but covered 
in spots with a dark-grey, mealy layer. — Stipe white, smooth, pellucid, 
swollen and floccose at base. — Gills at first white, then dark 2—3 mm 
broad, free. — Spores dark-brown, broadly ellipsoidal, 11—15*7—9 u. 
602. C. cordisporus Gibbs, in J. E. Lange, Dansk Bot. Ark., Bind 2, 
No. 3, 1915, p. 43, pl. I, fig. g. 
Seydisfjordur and Reykjavik [P.L.). — On horsedung in bogs. 
Pileus cylindrical, then flat and radiately striate-plicate, skin-like, 
6—8 mm broad, pale with a yellow centre, covered by a mealy layer 
consisting of spherical cells, 20—40 x in diameter. — Stipe 2—3 cm long, 
