THE: 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[OCTOBER 16, 1875, 
Pears here 
well e same 
in to the сера of 3 feet, all that сап 
7. Sheppard 
ee ше IN THE MUSH- 
OM TRIBE.* 
нн. RADIATUS, FR.) 
Fon the purposes of minute research into the vital 
D the Mushroom tribe, Coprinus radiatus, 
Fr., possesses many advanta putent e other species 
of the large order to which it belongs. The first great 
advantage peculiar to C. radiatus is that it grows 
and abundantly on dungheaps from April to 
W.G.S. АО.МАТ. 5С, 
аррош 
smallness and lack of yocp id marked 
apparent s out- 
lines in the ad seen ; but this does not detract 
from the correctness of astronomi ical oni which 
try as seen on a 
C radiatus 
other species belonging t 
it would be impossible to пе the observations here 
recorded on the ad 
of days, these latter plants t 
C. radiatus generation after generation keeps springing 
up in almost daily succession, but in the more fleshy 
сона and collapse every part of the plant, whilst а 
"Sg. dew ors slight sho ay cle of rain w сенер whole 
Me inute y be gathered 
with tbe aid of f small nad for if inc ES are taken i in 
collapse, 
seven or eight in the 
plants can be seen (fig. 103, C D, enlarged 20 diameters); 
about eleven or twelve 
and by t id or three D ek in the mo 
iid is reached. If the m 
plants will remain in perfection till nine or ten o'clock, 
but if it is dry they will not last after five or six, On 
e 
тестш 
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FIG, 
FIG. 102,—COPRINUS RADIATUS, FR, 
IO3.—COPRINUS RADIATUS, FR. 
A, Natural size; E, Enlarged 10 diam. ; other figures, 20 diam. diam. 
Enlargec d 5o 
town and , species, ym of PO" me. assu 1 = shady roadsides or in dark places the time required — 
December, — - comes up equally we 
country. econd point in its mre is that it is | convinced there a rule, but generation for eh may probably be a little more or less, but 
so small an e mec The “the айй iig obs ns 'apply to lants as found - 
examined, id an entire plant kept under the covering | up from the f the fall of the a light and ope 
glass of the mi icroscope. advantage found | previous year, is mycelium has rested in the To get a good view of C. radiatus it is necessary to — 
in C. radiatus rests in the fact а б.а whole life being n digging up o ify i from 50 to 100 diam ; the | 
pas- 
ead ана of an чт which 
so exceedingly short, that its е 
perf v r thes points in view passed, mycelium in a resting state is invariably and all the individual component cells be 
t su ound, There i is no such long rest with the mycelium Mature plants are figured at E, F ранам s enlarged 19 19 
of fresh horse-dung in | of Coprinus radiatus, for so long as the weather is not d 20 diameters, the first showi 
m this bed I havenarrowly watched | too dry, too wet, or too cald ый gus goes ot ee outer surface of pileus, with i = and the “other 
generations of the lant I am ing itself day after re c, Ана d the lower or fruiting surface, with the nature of the 
very or fi imer e buried, | gills, and the collar formed by them near the insertion 
and it rests in the moist dung for short periods | ofthe stem. AtGis shown the relative n umber of the 
of time only. basidia privileged cells, w the na a 
our gates eie Soe єч dung-borne | spores, and at H the relative number and position 
in Agarics with a cap which from an eighth to other pri is, termed rm ager 
extent. з= out by facts, for а drawing is one quarter i i = latter bodies I shall presently refer more fully, апа — 
meant to represent what may be accidentally sen a чуби йни na: MAN bu i. dn they are m ad to idea may - 
one sitting, but is designed as a summing-up of all - a quarter i an inch or | be formed of their great number. At І is shown | 
i h the cap of the fungus, а — 
time before expansion (when. 
| top is down), to show that the hair-like stem is hollow, 
* Read by Mr. и G. Smith, F. L.S., at the meeting 
à ы кон сш ereford, October 1 4, 1875. 
