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Genus Coprinus . 
52. Coprinus albus, Quelet, Assoc. France, 1880, p. 4. 
Entirely snow-white ; pileus ovoid, then expanded, floccosely mealy; 
at length grooved, pearly grey, and with tawny flecks at the summit, 
up to 2 cm. across ; gills adnate, seceding ; spores obliquely elliptical, 
12-13 /x long; stem coarsely striate upwards , base swollen and 
downy. 
Fasciculate ; on decaying vegetable matter, &c. France. 
Superficially resembling C. Friesii', allied to C. ster cor anus. 
53. Coprinus pilosus, Beck, Pilzfl. von Niederost. iii, p. 44. 
Pileus at first cylindrical, apex rounded, white, densely covered 
with septate, acute, hairs, when expanded centre almost glabrous 
2016. yellowish, margin slightly striate, 8 mm. broad ; gills . . . ? spores 
elliptical, 9-12 x 6-7 /x ; stem up to 5-5 cm. high, very slender, 
watery, minutely pubescent, floccose at base. 
On sheep-dung. Austria. 
54. Coprinus exstinctorius, Fries, Epicr. p. 245. 
Pileus cylindric-clavate, then campanulate, margin striate, whitish, 
apex tinged brown, clothed at first with evanescent, floccose scales, 
3-5 cm. across ; gills reaching the stem ; spores 10-1 1 x 6-7 /x ; stem 
8-12 cm. long, smooth, white, hollow, swollen at the base and rooting. 
On the ground about the roots of trees. Britain, France, Holland, 
Germany, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Russia, Belgium, Ceylon. 
Allied to C. fimetarius , which differs in the pileus becoming bald 
from the margin to the disc, whereas the present species becomes 
bald first at the disc, the baldness progressively extending to the 
margin. 
55. Coprinus fimbriatus, B. & Br., Linn. Soc. Journ. (Bot.) 
Vol. xi, p. 561. 
Pileus campanulate, tomentose, whitish, margin fringed with white 
hairs, striate, 1-2 cm. across; gills adnate', spores 8 x 5 /x ; stem 
5 cm. long, glabrous , equal, white, hollow. 
On dung. Ceylon. 
Allied to C. stercorarius. 
56. Coprinus roris, Quel., Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr., Vol. xxiv, 
p. 322, pi. 5, f. 5. 
Pileus soon convex and with the centre depressed, sulcate, glaucous or 
pearly grey, covered at first with a thin, evanescent, tawny white veil, 
