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Tribe 2. Veliformes. Pileus thin, without pellicle, at length 
splitting, sulcate. Stem thin, fistulose ; gills wasting into 
thin lines. 
352. Coprinns stercorarius. Fr. Hym. Fur. 330. Cooke 
Ulus. t. 685a. Sacc. Syll. 4465. 
Pilens very thin, ovate, then campanulate, covered with a dense 
white micaceous meal, then expanded (2| c.m. broad, 2 c.m. high) f 
margin striate, stem at first ovately bulbous, then elongated, 
attenuated, at first pruinate, white ; gills adnexed, ventricose, 
black. Spores 14-15 x 8 p. 
On rich soil and dung. Victoria. N.S.Wales. Queensland. 
Tasmania. 
353. Coprinus murinus. Kalch. Grev. vm., t. 142, /. 10. 
(Sacc. Syll. 4477. 
Small. Pileus submenibranaceous, conically campanulate 
(scarcely 1 c.m. high), with a prominent papilla at the apex, 
sprinkled with white persistent flocci, scarcely striate, grey. Stem 
short (1-3 c.m.), thin, slightly attenuated upwards, white, gills 
rather broad, black. 
On the ground. Victoria. N.S.Wales. 
354. Coprinus ephemerus. Fr. Hym. Fur. 331. Cooke 
Ulus. t. 6854. Sacc. Syll. 4480. 
Pileus very thin, ovate, then campanulate, splitting, radiato- 
sulcate, subfurfuraceous (6-18 m.m. broad) ; disc elevated , even, 
rufescent ; stem slender (2|-5 c.m. long, 2-3 m m. thick) ; equal, 
pellucid, smooth ; gills reaching the stem, linear, whitish, then 
brown and black. Spores 17 X 10 p. 
On dung hills. Queensland. 
355. Coprinus plicatilis. Curt. FI. Loud. t. 200. Fr. Hym. 
Fur. 331. Cooke Ulus. t. 686 a. Sacc. Syll. 4490. 
Pileus very thin, oval-cylindrical, then expanded (l-2£ c.m. 
broad), splitting, sulcato-plicate, somewhat smooth ; disc broad, at 
length depressed, even ; stem equal, smooth, white (2-8 c.m. 
long) ; gills adnate to a distinct collar, distant, greyish black. 
Spores 12-14x8-10/t. 
In pastures. Victoria. Queensland. N.S.Wales. (Fig. 35). 
Genus 3. BOIiBITIUS. Fries. 
Hymenophore almost separate, universal veil none, partial veil 
in many cases obsolete ; gills membranaceous, soft, dissolving, 
powdery with the rusty oval spores. 
356. Bolhitius fragilis. Fr. Hym. Fur. 334. Cooke Illus. 
t. 720 a. Sacc. Syll. 4355. 
Pileus submembranaceous, viscid, pellucid (1-2 c.m. broad}, 
margin striate, disc subumbonate ; stem attenuated, naked, smooth,. 
