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THE LARGER FUNGI 
the scales becoming ochraceous at their apices, disc deep ocliraceous remaining 
persistently entire, at length striate, margin often torn and unequal, white 
becoming pinkish at the margin and finally black. Gills free, separate from the 
stem, linear, white then pink at length black and deliquescent. Stem up to 4J to 
10in. (12 to 25 cm.), 1 to 2 cm. thick, attenuated upwards from the bulbous 
rooting base, fibrillose, silky, shining, white, then dingy or lilac white. Ring 
white, membranaceous, thin, torn, movable, fugacious. Spores black, elliptical. 
[Drawing by E.R.C. 
Figure 29. — Goprinus comatus (FI. Dan.) 
Fr. (No. 242). Unexpanded. Adelaide. 
11 to 13 X 0 to 7 p. (Australian specimens 9.5 to 17.3 x (3 to 11 /*). Cystidia 
vesiculose, 50 to 65 x 20 to 30 p. Taste mild. ” — Rea, Edible before the gills 
begin to turn black. South Australia — In lawn, Botanic Gardens; Beaumont; 
MacDonnell Bay (S.E.). New South Wales. Victoria. Europe, etc, (Figure 29.) 
A species easily recognised amongst our deliquescent Coprim by its large size, 
white shaggy pileus in the early stages and the movable ring and absence of a 
volva. 
243. Coprinus sterquilinus Fr. (L., sterquilinum, a dung-pit).— At first 
cylindrical, covered with shaggy white fibrils or long white hairs as part of the 
