Genus Coprinus . 1 5 1 
cuticle somewhat striate, greyish brown , the margin at length revolute, 
lacerated, 5-7-5 cm. broad ; gills narrow, thin, crowded, free, slate 
colour, becoming black; spores about 10 x 5’5 /*> elliptical, stem 
8-15 cm. long, 4-6 mm. thick, equal, hollow, white. 
Caespitose at the base of cotton-wood stumps. United States. 
This plant resembles C. picaceus very closely. New York speci- 
mens were formerly referred to it as variety ebulbosus , but now having 
received it from various widely separated localities and finding that it 
maintains its distinctive character with constancy, it seems best to 
consider it a good species. Its peculiar characters are the absence of 
a bulbous base to the stem and its smaller spores. It also sometimes 
grows in large tufts. ‘ About fifty grew in a solid clump, all united at 
the base ’ (Peck). 
If the present plant is so closely allied to Coprinus picaceus , then the 
structure called the cuticle will in reality be the volva. 
46. Coprinus tomentosus, Fries, Epicr. p. 246 . 
Pileus cylindrical, then narrowly conical, at length expanded, striate, 
entirely covered at first with a greyish felty veil which becomes torn 
into scales during expansion, pallid or yellowish below the veil, 
2-5-3 cm - high; gills free ; stem about 5 cm. long, velvety, greyish, 
hollow. 
On dung and in rich pastures. Britain, Sweden, Switzerland, 
Holland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Russia, Belgium, Finland, France, 
Germany, Ceylon, Queensland, Kerguelen’s Land, Victoria, United 
States. 
47 . Coprinus velatus, Quel., Bull. Bot. Soc. Fr., Vol. xxiii, 
p. 329, pi. 2, fig. 6. 
Enclosed at first in a thin, white volva ; pileus cylindrical, then 
spreading, coarsely furrowed, yellow or pale ochraceous, 2-3 cm. across ; 
gills free, but close to the stem ; spores elliptical, 10x5 \i\ stem 
4-6 cm. long, rather stout, white, villose, coarsely striate. 
In troops on the ground in woods. France. 
48. Coprinus Forquignoni, Massee. 
\Coprinus Queletii , Forq., Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 1887, 
p. xxxi, pi. 1, fig. 1 (non Schulzer)]. 
Pileus ellipsoid, then conico-campanulate, at first enclosed in a 
thickish ochraceous veil, which becomes broken up during expansion 
