Genus Coprinus. 149 
behind ; spores 15x10/1; stem 15-20 cm. long, solid, fibrillose, pallid, 
ventricose at the middle , base bulbous. 
On the ground. Cape of Good Hope. 
39 . Coprinus flocculosus, Fries, Epicr. p. 245. 
Pileus ovate , then expanded, dirty white , striate , with innate 
squamules, 4-7 cm. across; gills free, narrow; spores 10x7-8 /a; 
stem 6-10 cm. high, white, silky, shining , hollow. 
On the ground in fields, &c. Britain, France, Sweden. 
Solitary or tufted. Allied to C. aratus and C. lagopus. Differs 
from the former in the white pileus, and from the latter in the smooth 
stem and disc of pileus not being brown. 
40 . Coprinus stenophyllus, Mont., Syll. Plant. Crypt, no. 
410, p. 132. 
Pileus ovoid-campanulate, soon expanded, slightly striate, broken up 
into scattered ochraceous scales , rufous, becoming fuliginous, 5-7 cm. 
diameter; gills free, but adpressed to the stem, very narrow ; stem 
cartilaginous, elongated, hollow, smooth, white. 
On the ground among rotten wood, United States. 
Allied to C. deliquescens and C. micaceus, differing from both in the 
very narrow gills and scaly pileus. 
41 . Coprinus microsporus, B. & Br., Linn. Soc. Journ. 
(Bot.) Vol. xi, p. 560. (Fig. 59.) 
Pileus campanulate, obtuse, dirty white , with scattered innate , pale 
umber scales, about 1*5 cm. across; gills free, white with a red tinge, 
slowly becoming black; spores 4-5x2 /*; stem 3-4 cm. high, white, 
smooth, curved, hollow. 
On soil. Ceylon. 
42 . Coprinus maerosporous, Peck, 31st Rep. N. York State 
Mus. p. 35. 
Pileus ovate, then expanded, rimoso-striate, obscurely floccose-squamu- 
lose, white, the small, even , brownish disc squamose , 2-5-5 cm. across; 
gills free, white, then black; spores elliptical, 20-25 X 13-15 Mi stem 
5-7-5 cm. high, white, glabrous (with traces of a ring near the 
thickened base). 
Caespitose ; ground in open fields. United States. 
The prominent characters of this species are the rimose pileus, 
squamose disc, free gills, and large spores. 
