Genus C 'opr inns. 1 6 1 
distant from the stem , black ; spores 6-8 x 5-6 fi ; stem up to 17 cm. 
high, white, floccose, hollow. 
On the ground among poplars. Finland. 
Allied to C. lag opus. 
83 . Coprinus macrocephalus, Berk., Engl. Flora, Vol. v, 
p. 12 2. 
Pileus cylindrical , then campanulate, margin slightly striate, ashy 
grey, disc brownish , sprinkled with pale, pointed scales , 2 cm. high and 
broad; gills free; spores 11-13x7-8 ix; stem 3-5 cm. long, dingy 
white, clothed with white fibrils , hollow. 
Subcaespitose on rotten dung. Britain, France. 
Allied to C. lagopus , but distinguished by the dark grey pileus, 
which is coarsely sulcate up to the umbo. 
84 . Coprinus tigrinellus, Boud., Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. Vol. 
xxxii, p. 283, pi. 9, f. 3. (Figs. 33-34.) 
Pileus elliptic-oblong , then campanulate, striate, snow-white at first, 
margin becoming rosy-grey, pulverulent, with scattered tawny flecks 
upwards , about 1 cm. high and wide ; gills free, white, then brownish 
black ; spores broadly elliptical, tawny, 11x7 A 1 5 stem about 2 cm. 
long, white, base slightly bulbous and often with blackish flecks. ■ 
On leaves of sedges, Iris, and other aquatic plants, growing just 
above water-level. France. 
Closely allied to C. Friesii ; differing in being covered at first with 
brown tomentum, which breaks up into flecks on pileus and base 
of stem. 
85 . Coprinus Friesii, Quelet, Champ. Jura, p. 129, pi. 23, 
%• 5 - (Figs- 37 - 3 8.) 
Pileus elliptic-oblong, then expanding, floccosely pulverulent, deli- 
cately striate, white or apex tinged yellow, margin becoming rosy- 
grey, 1-2 cm. high and across; gills free, reddish , then black ; spores 
angularly subglobose, about 10 fi long; stem 2 cm. long, slender, 
white, pulverulent , base rather swollen and floccose. 
On dead grass and other leaves. France, Holland, Germany, 
Belgium, Finland. 
Differs from C. tigrinellus , which also grows on grass, &c., in not 
being covered when young with a brown veil. 
