M3 
Genus Coprinus. 
recurved scales, almost from the first; gills free, white, then blackish, 
without any intermediate red colour ; volva without a free margin, 
hence the ring is absent. 
Rather smaller than the type-form. 
14. Coprinus atramentarius, Fries, Epicr. p. 243. 
Pileus rather fleshy, ovate, then campanulate, irregularly fluted, 
margin uneven, greyish white, with minute brownish squamules near 
the apex, 8-12 cm. high ; gills free, broad, white , then purplish-brown ; 
spores 12x6 m stem 10-16 cm. long, white, hollow ; ring basal, 
very evanescent. 
About old stumps and on rich soil ; not on dung. Britain, France, 
Germany, Sweden, Italy, Portugal, Holland, Spain, Denmark, Russia, 
Belgium, Finland, Hungary, Switzerland, Austria, United States, Cape 
of Good Hope, Kerguelen Island. 
Caespitose ; large, edible. Distinguished from C. praegnans and 
C. soboliferus in having the stem distinctly hollow. 
15 . Coprinus soboliferus, Fries, Epicr. p. 243. 
Pileus thin, ovate, then expanded, lower half plicate, disc truncate, 
often depressed, whitish grey, apex brownish and bearing darker 
brown squamules, 9-12 cm. high; gills free, broad, white becoming 
black ; spores elliptical, 15x7^; stem 12-20 cm. long, white, stuffed ; 
ring fugacious. 
On the ground near trunks and buried wood. Sweden, Britain, 
Germany, Holland, France, Hungary. 
Clustered. Distinguished from allies by the stuffed stem and 
truncate disc of pileus. Very close to C. atramentarius , if indeed 
distinct as a species. 
16. Coprinus pyrenaeus, Quel., Assoc. Franc. 1 887, p. 2, pi. 
xxi, fig. 6. 
Pileus narrowly elliptical, up to 10 cm. long, striate, pearl-grey 
showing through a dense veil of free white fibrils: ; gills free, pinkish, 
then brown; spores irregular, ovoid to almost globose, 1 2-1 8 /x long ; 
stem 10-15 cm - l° n g> hollow, white, fibrillose, ring narrow, fugacious, 
basal. 
On the ground in troops in alpine regions. France. 
Distinguished from C. atramentarius by the dense white veil. 
