Genus Coprinus . 163 
stem up to 4 cm. long, ventricose below , white, flocculose, then 
glabrous and silky; rooting, fibrils up to 2 c?n. long , brown. 
On soil in plant-pots. Austria. 
89 . Coprinus laxus, Bresad. & Schulz., Hedw. 1885, p. 136. 
Pileus parabolic , then semiglobose , grey, disc yellowish cinnamon, 
granuloso-floccose , 1-1-2 cm. broad; gills free, 2 mm. broad; spores 
irregularly elliptical, black, 6-8 x 4-5 /x ; stem 2-5~6-5 cm. long, 
white, tinged brown at the slightly thickened base , fugacious flecks , 
especially upwards. 
In pastures. Austria. 
The stem bends over as it dries. 
90 . Coprinus Altoertinii, Karst., Hattsv. 1, p. 535 * 
Pileus campanulate, sulcate, greyish white , disc brownish, clothed 
with a delicate network of fibrils, 3-4 cm. broad ; gills free, becoming 
distant from the stem; spores elliptical, opaque, 10-12x6 [x ; stem 
up to 7 cm. long, silky flocculose , white. 
Grassy places. Finland. 
91 . Coprinus plurnbeus, Peck, 29th Rep. State Mus. N. 
York, p. 42. 
Pileus thin, fragile, campanulate, deeply striate nearly to the apex , 
leaden grey, tawny on the small disc, sprinkled with tawny-cinereous 
hairs , 25-4 cm. across; gills free, narrow ; spores elliptical, 10 x 6 n; 
stem 8-12 cm. high, white, flaccose , hollow, slightly tapering 
upwards. 
Paths in woods. United States, 
92. Coprinus Strossmayeri, Schulzer, Verhandl. Zool. Bot. 
Gesell. Wien, Band 28, p. 430. 
Pileus digitaliform , then conico-campanulate, whitish, then grey, 
apex darker, finally pale ochraceous, covered with superficial, seceding, 
squarrose scales , not striate, 5-8 cm. broad ; gills free ; spores 7-9 fx 
long; stem 4-16 cm. long, straight or ascending, white, delicately 
pruinose, hollow, springing from a blackish brown, compact, branching 
mycelium. 
Subcaespitose at roots of trees. Austria. 
