Genus Coprinus . 1 5 5 
filaments , 3-4 mm. long ; gills adnate, becoming free ; stem slender, 
white, floccose, hollow, bulbous ; spores 10 n long. 
Gregarious on rotten leaves in damp places. France. 
Allied to C. lagopus. 
61 . Coprinus domesticus, Fries, Epicr. p. 251. 
Pileus ovate, then campanulate, obtuse, sulcaie , disc even , bay , 
remainder whitish or pale tawny , furfuraceo-floccose, 4-7 cm. across ; 
gills adnexed ; spores elliptic-oblong, 11-12x7 stem 6-9 cm. 
long, adpressedly silky, white. 
On the ground among rubbish, &c. Britain, Germany, Sweden, 
France, Russia, Belgium, Switzerland, United States. 
Very brittle, often caespitose. Larger than its allies, C. stercoreus , 
C. ephemerus , &c. 
61 *. Coprinus laniger, Peck, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club. Vol. 
xxii, p. 491. 
Pileus thin, conical or campanulate, covered when young with 
numerous tawny tomentose or floccose scales, which partly or wholly 
disappear with age, sulcate-striate nearly to the apex, pallid, tawny or 
greyish ochraceous, 1-2*5 cm. across; gills crowded, whitish, then 
brownish-black; spores oblong-elliptical, 10x4-5 /* ; stem about 
2*5 cm. long, 2-4 mm. thick, slightly thickened at the base, minutely 
downy or pruinose, white, hollow. 
Caespitose at the base of cotton-wood stumps. United States. 
The species resembles C. micaceus, from which it is distinguishable 
by the floccose-squamose coating of the young pileus, and by its more 
narrow spores (Peck). 
Unfortunately the author has not observed, or at least not recorded, 
the attachment of the gills, hence the section to which the present 
species belong is uncertain. It cannot go into the section containing 
C. micaceus on account of its floccose veil. 
62 . Coprinus alopecia, Fries, Epicr. p. 248. 
Pileus ovate, then campanulate, obtuse, sulcate, at first covered with 
adpressed fibrils , soon glabrous, pale brown or ochraceous, up to 
7-5 cm. broad; gills adnexed; spores . . . ? stem at first short, thin, 
9-12 cm. long, densely scaly , hollow, base thickened. 
