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117. Coprinus velox, Godey, in Gill. Champ. Fr. Hym. 
p. 614, with fig. 
Pileus obovate, striate, then grooved, scurfy between the ribs, disc 
also greyish and scurfy, 3-4 mm. across; gills close to the stem; 
stem 1-5-3 cm - l°u g, covered with delicate white floe cose doivn, base with 
radiating fibrils. 
On cow-dung. France. 
118. Coprinus ephemeras, Fries, Epicr. p. 
Pileus very delicate, ovate, then campanulate, sulcate, slightly 
scurfy at first, disc elevated , even, rufescent , 1-2 cm. across; gills 
slightly adnexed; spores 16-1 7 x 9-10 jx ; stem 3-6 cm. long; 
glabrous , pellucid , whitish, hollow. 
On dung-hills, manured ground, &c. Britain, France, Denmark, 
Germany, Holland, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Italy, Russia, Belgium, 
Finland, Hungary, Switzerland, United States, Queensland, New 
Zealand, South Africa. 
Very slightly furfuraceous at first, soon naked. 
119. Coprinus mycenopsis, Karsten, Symb. Myc. Fenn. 
viii, p. 8. 
Pileus campanulate, then expanded, sulcate , sooty-grey , the livid disc 
prominent , scurfy at first, soon naked, 3-7 cm. across; gills adnate, 
purple, then brown ; spores 7-8x4 n ; stem up to 14 cm. long, 
glabrous (apex very slightly flocculose), striate upwards , white, 
hollow. 
In meadows. Finland. 
120 . Coprinus Berkeleyi, Montag., Syll. PI. Crypt. No. 409, 
p. 131. 
Pileus cylindrical, ovate, then campanulate, delicately striate, fur- 
furaceous, yellowish or greyish brown, then blackish, 3-5 cm. high, 
5 cm. broad; gills adnexed, very narrow; stem up to 15 cm. long, 
cartilaginous , variegated with yellowish green and rufous , hollow, 
glabrous, base thickened. 
On rotten wood. United States. 
Differs from C. stenophyllus in colour, absence of scales on pileus, 
and in having margin of pileus entire, and from C. deliquescens in the 
pileus being delicately striate and the adnexed gills. 
