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Section V. 
102 . Coprinus micaceus, Fries, Epicr. p. 247. 
Pileus oval at first , then campanulate, margin plicate and irregular , 
striate, tawny ochraceous, at first covered with glistening micaceous 
particles, soon naked and becoming sulcate, 3-6 cm. across ; gills 
adnexed ; spores 7-8 x 4-5 /x ; stem 5-8 cm. long, white , silky, 
hollow. 
Usually densely clustered, at the base of old stumps, posts, &c. 
Britain, France, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Siberia, Austria, Sweden, 
Holland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Russia, Belgium, Switzerland, United 
States, Cape of Good Hope, Victoria. 
At first densely covered with colourless micaceous particles ; soon 
naked in rainy weather, when the pileus often becomes brownish. 
See remarks under C. truncorum. 
103 . Coprinus marcescens, Karst., Ryssl. Hattsv. 1, p. 
537 - 
Pileus campanulate, sulcate, whitish at first , soon dingy ochraceous, 
at length pale sooty-grey , disc brownish yellow, micaceous, sulcate, 
3-4 cm. broad ; gills adnexed ; spores obliquely elliptical, 6-9 x 4-6 /x ; 
stem about 9 cm. long, white, silky but even. 
On the ground. Finland. 
Allied to C. micaceus , but distinguished by the pileus becoming 
sooty-grey. 
104 . Coprinus aratus, B. & Br., Brit. Fung., No. 927, Ann. 
Nat. Hist. (1861); emended, No. 1956. 
Pileus narrowly elliptical, then campanulate, umber , deeply grooved 
up to the disc , sprinkled with large micaceous particles, 5-8 cm. across ; 
gills slightly adnexed, broadest behind ; spores 15x10-11 /x ; stem 
10-15 cm. long, snow-white, silky, hollow. 
In hollow trees, on the ground, &c. Britain. 
Berkeley and Broome at first described the present species as 
having free gills, and afterwards this was corrected to ‘ gills at first 
attached, but soon separating from the stem, but still connected at the 
base as if by a slight collar.’ 
