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species included in the present section in the pilaus scarcely 

 splitting. Eesembles Coprinvs niveus in the pure white 

 colour of the pileus and stem, but is larger in every part, 

 and the pilens is covered with a micaceous meal and not 

 with white floccose down as in 0. niveus. 



Coprinus ephemeras. Pr. 



Pileus J— |- in. across, very thin, ovate, then campanulate, 

 finally expanded and splitting, radiato-sulcate, at first 

 slightly farfuraceous, disc elevated, even, rufescent; gills 

 slightly attached, linear, white, then brownish, at length 

 blackish ; stem H-2^ in. high, 1 line or more thick, equal, 

 glabrous, pellucid, hollow, whitish; spores 16-17 X 9-10 fi. 



Coprinus ephemeras. Fries. Bpicr., p. 262 ; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 233 ; Cke., Elustr., pi. 685 b. 



On dung-hills, manured ground, &c. To the naked eye 

 appearing almost glabrous, but under a lens seen to be 

 distinctly farfuraceous. Known from Goprinus plioatilis by 

 the disc of the pileus being prominent and not depressed. 



Extremely fugacious. Pileus ^-f in. broad, ovate or 

 campanulate, at length deflexed, the margin finally 

 splitting and curling back ; apex umber, shaded gradually 

 into a delicate bluish-grey; striate, scaly w^hen young. 

 Gills at length black, linear, edge downy, white. Stem 1-2 

 in. high, 1 line thick, dirty white, with a few fibrillae, at 

 length naked. (Berk.) 



Coprinus sociatus. Pr. 



Pileus very thin, ovate, then campanulate, soon splitting, 

 radially plicate, mealy, fuscous, becoming pale, disc umber, 

 at length umbilicate ; gills adnexed to a collar, greyish- 

 black ; stem 2 in. long, attenuated, glabrous, white. 



Goprinus sociatus. Pries, Epicr., p. 252 ; Pries, Hym. Eur., 

 p. 331 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 233. 



On walls, moist ground in gardens, &c. 



Stem hollow, 2 in. long or a little more, slightly and 

 gradually attenuated from the base, glabrous, white, not 

 pellucid, oval-cylindrical, then expanded, 1^ in. broad, densely 

 grooved, the elevated ribs scurfy, brown becoming pale, 

 disc even, reddish-brown, centre depressed ; gills blackish- 

 brown, edge similarly coloured, tardily deliquescent. (Fries.) 



