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into irregular, persistent patches, whitish, then tinged grey, 5-6 mm. 
high ; gills free, then remote ; spores pip-shaped, 9 x 6 fi ; stem up to 
5 mm. long, pure white, slightly floccosely-fibrillose , ending in a tawny 
bulb. 
Subgregarious on dead leaves. France. 
Distinguished from C. Friesii and C. tigrinellus by the tawny, 
furfuraceous bulb at the base of the stem. 
49 . Coprinus various, Fries, Epicr. p. 244. 
Pileus ovate, then campanulate, white or livid towards the split 
margin , covered with broad, irregular, persistent but superficial white 
patches of the universal veil, 4-5 cm. across ; gills free ; spores 
. . . ? stem 6- 9 cm. long, often incurved, white, glabrous , solid, rigid, 
tough. 
On diseased portions of living beech-trees. Sweden. 
Allied to C. picaceus, but distinguished by the white pileus and 
solid, rigid, tough stem. 
50 . Coprinus niveus, Fries, Epicr. p. 246. 
Pileus elliptical, then campanulate, covered with snow-white, floccose 
down, 1 -5-2 *5 cm. across ; gills slightly adnexed ; spores 16x1 1-13/x; 
stem villose, white, hollow, 5-8 cm. high. 
On dung, especially of horses. Britain, Sweden, France, Germany, 
Holland, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Italy, Russia, Belgium, Finland, 
Hungary, Switzerland, United States, Victoria. 
Distinguished by the snow-white colour of every part, the per- 
sistently floccose pileus and stem, and adnexed gills. 
Var. astroideus, Fries, Epicr. p. 247. 
Pileus squamose, then inversed, naked, and grey, about 12 mm. 
broad ; stem up to 8 cm. long, slender, glabrous, base stellately 
strigose. 
An imperfectly known form. 
51 . Coprinus Colensoi, Berk., FI. N. Zeal, ii, p. 175. 
Pileus cylindrical, then slightly campanulate, densely covered with 
persistent white villose down, grey below the down, and delicately 
striate, 3-4 mm. high ; gills adnexed ; spores 7-8 x 5 /* ; stem slender, 
about 2 cm. high, tomentose, white. 
On dung. New Zealand. 
Resembling C. fiiveus in miniature. 
