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17 . Coprinus praegnans, Fries, Epicr. p. 243. 
Pileus campanulate, rather fleshy, not striate but everywhere covered 
with crowded , minute squamules , cinereous ; gills free, broad, umber 
from the first ; stem fusiform, rooting, solid, fibrillosely squamulose, 
ring free. 
On the ground. Sweden. 
Large, 18-20 cm. high. Allied to C. atramentarius , differing in the 
gills not being white, then purplish, but umber from the first, solid 
stem, & c. 
18 . Coprinus variegatus, Peck, 25th Rep. New York State 
Mus. p. 79. 
Pileus oblong-ovate, then campanulate, obtuse, hygrophanous , brown , 
then whitish, variegated with ochraceous tomentose scales, margin 
slightly striate, 2-5-4 cm. broad; gills free and ascending, white then 
rosy, at length black ; spores elliptical, 9 ju long ; stem equal, fragile, 
hollow, at first peronately-annulate, ring soon disappearing, then 
floccosely pruinose, 8-13 cm. high. 
Among dead leaves. United States. 
Distinguished from its ally C. atramentarius by being enveloped in 
a floccose veil when young, which later becomes broken up into 
scales. 
19 . Coprinus armillaris, Fries, Nov. Symb. Myc. p. 28. 
Pileus pellucid, conical, becoming plane, sulcate, whitish, disc 
greyish, 2-5 cm. across; gills at first white; stem 5-7-5 cm. long, 
narrowed upwards from a ventricose base, rufescent and slightly squamu- 
lose below, with a small, entire, median ring. 
Island of St. Thomas, West Indies. 
20 . Coprinus Hendersonii, Fries, Epicr. p. 250. 
Pileus subcylindrical, then almost plane, margin slightly fluted, 
minutely pruinose, apex tawny, remainder greyish white, up to 1 cm. 
across; gills free; spores elliptic-oblong, 10-12x6 p; stem 3-4 cm. 
long, with a permanent ring below the middle. 
On the ground. Britain, France, Belgium. 
There is at times distinct evidence of the stem being peronate up to 
the ring. Allied to C. bulbillosus, differing in the elliptical spores, 
and absence of a bulb at base of stem. 
