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Mas see, — A Revision of the 
arranged scales , with an unbroken patch at the disc, soon expanding, 
becoming blackish, coarsely grooved, and up to 5 cm. across ; gills 
free ; stem 3-6 cm. high, white, base volvate and with a fugacious 
ring formed by the margin of the volva breaking away. 
On sandy ground. Finland. 
Allied to C. sterquilinus . differing in being smaller, and in the stem 
not becoming black when bruised. 
3 . Coprinus oblectus, Fries, Epicr. p. 243. 
Pileus cylindric-ovate, then campanulate, coarsely striate, at first 
whitish and silk y, glabrous, pale tawny, and sprinkled with rose-coloured 
powder , 3-5 cm. broad ; gills free, pinkish, then black with a purple 
tinge; spores broadly elliptical, 18 x 1 1-12 /z ; stem 8-12 cm. long, 
persistently white, silky, volva with a broad, recurved margin. 
On dung, road-scrapings, &c. England, France. 
4 . Coprinus jasmundianus, Kalchbr., in Asch. Beitr. Flor. 
Aeg., 1879, p. 73. 
Pileus conic-ovate, grooved, sordid, flocculose, 4-5 cm. broad; gills 
linear, black; stem 10-12 cm. long, whitish, striate , hollow, base 
bulbous, volvate. 
On the ground on caravan-tracks. Egypt. 
5 . Coprinus stenocoleus, Lindblad, in Fries, Mon. p. 306. 
Pileus cylindrical, then broadly campanulate and umbonate, even , 
blackish, with white squamules, 5-8 cm. across ; gills free ; stem 
10-15 cm - long, slender, pale tawny, more especially upwards, base 
thickened and closely sheathed by a long volva having the margin free. 
On manured ground. Sweden. 
6. Coprinus umbrinus, Mass., Grev. Vol. xxi, p. 41. (Figs. 
I 3 ~ I 4 -) 
At first entirely enclosed in a white volva ; pileus conico-hemi- 
spherical, soon almost plane, coarsely sulcate up to the disc, umber, 
ornamented with patches of the volva, 4-5 cm. across ; gills free ; 
spores elliptic- oblong, 17-18 + 9 ; stem 10-15 cm. long, dark 
umber from the first, base bulbous, with a persistent white volva 
having a free, reflexed margin. 
On manured ground. England. 
Distinguished from C. stenocoleus by the sulcate pileus and umber 
stem. 
