Genus Coprinus. 1 7 1 
120*. Coprinus australiensis, Mass. (sp. nov.). (Figs. 
&-&•) 
Pileus elliptical, soon becoming plane, finally upturned and umbo- 
nate, flesh very thin except at the disc, almost glabrous, pale tan, 
becoming greyish towards the margin, disc darker (when dry), striate, 
5-7 cm. across when plane ; gills free , broad , black, margin whitish, 
not readily deliquescing ; spores lemon-shaped , black, 17-18 x 10-12 n ; 
stem 10-14 cm. long, almost equal, whitish. 
On dung. Brisbane, Queensland (Bailey, No. 691). 
A very distinct and beautiful species, at first referred to C. deli - 
quescens, from which it differs in the much larger spores, and other 
points. 
121. Coprinus cothurnatus, Godey, in Gillet’s Champ. Fr. 
Hymen, p. 605 , with fig. 
Pileus conic o-campanulate, finally expanded and umbonate, densely 
furfuraceous, dingy white, reddish, flesh-coloured, or yellowish, 2-3 cm. 
across ; gills free ; spores elliptical ; stem 3-5 cm. long, white, 
squamulose below. 
On cow-dung. France, Britain. 
The strigose squamules surrounding the base of the stem represent 
a completely disintegrated volva. 
122. Coprinus evanidus, Godey, in Gill. Champ. Fr. Hym. 
p. 614 , with a fig. 
Pileus ohovale , then campanulate, striate, whitish, slightly furfuraceous, 
disc prominent , tinged brown , 3-4 mm. across ; gills free, distant ; 
spores elliptical; stem 1 • 5-2-5 cm. long, pellucid, white, covered with 
delicate white down. 
In the interstices of cow-dung. France. 
123. Coprinus soeiatus, Fries, Epicr. p. 252. 
Pileus ovate, then campanulate, plicate, subsquamulose or furfu- 
raceous, pallid, disc umber , at length depressed , about 2 cm. across; 
gills narrowed behind, attached to a collar , but not remote from the 
stem, blackish ; stem 4-5 cm. long, white, glabrous, not pellucid. 
Damp ground in gardens, &c. Denmark, Sweden, Britain, France, 
Germany, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland. 
