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transparent , 1-1-5 cm. broad; gills adnate ; spores ovate, 11-12 n 
long ; stem up to 4 cm. long, slender, greyish , villosely floccose. 
Among short grass. France. 
Very fugacious, differs from C. plicatilis in the adnate gills, and 
from C. diaphanus in the villosely floccose stem. 
57 . Coprinus Brassieae, Peck, 43rd Rep. N. York State 
Mus. p. 18, pi. 2, fig. 9-14. 
Pileus ovate or conical, then broadly convex, squamulose, finely 
striate to the disc , white, becoming greyish brown, 4-5 lines broad ; 
gills narrow, reaching the stem, brownish ; spores elliptical, brown, 
7-5X5 ft ; stem white, slender, hollow. 
On decaying cabbage-stems. United States. 
This species is easily known by its squamulose pileus, and its brown 
gills and spores. Allied to Coprinus phaeosporus , C. Friesii, and 
C. tigrinellus. 
58 . Coprinus similis, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist. Ser. 3, 
Vol. xv, p. 317. 
Pileus ovate, then campanulate, striate pallid, disc darker , studded 
with brown-tipped pointed warts which eventually disappear, about 
2-5 cm. across; gills adnate; spores . . . ?; stem white, hollow. 
On trunks of dead trees. Britain. 
Resembling C. aphthosus , but differing in the striate pileus. 
59 . Coprinus murinus, Kalchbr., Grev. Vol. viii, p. 152, 
pi. 142, Fig. 10, in Vol. ix. 
Pileus conico-campanulate, prominently papillate , sprinkled with 
white floccose squamules, scarcely striate, grey, up to 1 cm. high ; 
gills adnexed ; stem 1-3 cm. long, white. 
On the ground. Victoria. 
Allied to C. cooperlus, differing in being papillate, opaque, pulveru- 
lent, and not micaceous. 
60 . Coprinus Brunandii, Quel., Champ. Jura et Vosg. 
Suppl. xvii, p. 4, t. 15, f- 11. 
Pileus campanulate, 5-6 mm. high, very delicate, striate, greyish 
lilac, covered at first with very delicate, crystalline , interwoven , caducous 
