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THE UARGEH FUNGI 
* ** Universal veil floceose, at first continuous, then broken upi into superficial 
scales which form patches on the pilous. 
No South Australian species recorded. 
***""Pileus at first clothed with distinct floeci, or lax villous down, which 
fall off and disappear. Ring none. 
247. Coprinus niveus (Pers.) Fr. (L., vi-reiix, snow-white). — Snow-white, medium 
sized. When young ovate, covered with a shaggy white veil, then conico-hemis- 
plierical, finally conico-convex, pilous up to IJin. (3,7 cult.) broad and high but 
usually smaller, apex acute, edge curling up, covered with a white meal. Gills 
adnate, ascending, narrow, close, clouded. Stem up to 2hi. (o cm.), slightly 
attenuated upwards, mealy, hollow, white. No strong smell. Spores subspherieal 
to elliptical, sometimes with the ends drawn in, nearly black, 12..S x 11 g, 11 to 
18.5 x 8 to 13 ,u. On dung. South Australia — Adelaide, Burnside, National Park, 
Encounter Bay, Port Elliot, on horse-dung Ernabella (Musgrave Ranges). April, 
June, August'. 
A rather small snow-white species without obvious smell found growing on 
dung. The pilous and stem are covered with a white meal. 
’••••Pilous covered with small micaceous scales or granules which fall off 
and disappear. 
248. Coprinus micaceus (Bull.) Ur. (L.. -miam-ntt. glittering). — Pilous l 1 , to 
2iin. (3 to (i cm.), Jin. (1.8 cm.) high, subtncmbranaccous, conical, becoming 
broadly conico-convex, undulato-lobed, rimosely split, striate, at first covered 
with glistening micaceous particles, soon naked and becoming striate-rugose to 
[ Photo , by 8‘. Tee. 
Figure 30 . — Cnyrimix mieaceiis (Bull.) Fr. (No. 248). 
Botanic Gardens, Adelaide. 
