Genus Coprinus. 
pseudo- nycthemerus , 1 8 1 . 
pseudo-plicatilis, 169. 
pulchrifolius , 181. 
punctatus, 148. 
pyrenaeus, 143. 
Queletii, 162. 
Queletii ^ 151. 
radians, 167. 
radiatus, 173. 
rapidus, 179. 
roris, 153. 
rotundosporus, 159. 
rubecula, 158. 
saatensis, 148. 
scauroides, 145. 
sceptrum, 176. 
Schroteri, 180. 
— var. proximellus, 181. 
sclerotigenus, 1 74. 
semilanatus, 165. 
semistriatus, 177. 
setulosus , 181. 
Seymouri, 156. 
silvaticus, 175. 
similis, 1 54. 
soboliferus, 143. 
sociatus, 1 7 1. 
solifugus, 1 8 1. 
solstitialis, 139. 
sororius, 179. 
Spegazzinii, 159. 
spiralis, 179. 
Spraguei, 158. 
stellaris, 169. 
stenocoleus, 140. 
stenophyllus, 149. 
stercorarius, 167. 
sterquilinus, 139. 
Strossmayeri, 163. 
subcoeruleo-griseus, 156. 
subglobatus, 158. 
sulcato-crenatus, 172. 
tardus, 173. 
tergiversans, 147. 
tigrinellus, 161. 
toinentosus, 15 1. 
torquatus, 145. 
Trappenii, 141. 
tuberosus, 164. 
truncorum, 167. 
umbrinus, 140. 
varicus, 152. 
variegatus, 144. 
velaris, 180. 
velatus, 1 5 1. 
velox, 170. 
virgineus, 157. 
volvaceo-minimus, 141. 
Wrightii, 172. 
EXPLANATION OF FIGURES IN PLATES 
X AND XI. 
Illustrating Mr. Massee’s paper on Coprinus. 
Fig. 1. Coprinus fimetarius , var. macrorhiza, Fr. Fungus nat. size. 
Fig. 2. Basidium with spores of same. X400. 
Fig. 3. Coprinus gigasporus, Massee; nat. size. 
Fig. 4. Section through pileus of same; nat. size. 
Fig. 5. Basidium with spores of same. X500. 
Fig. 6 . Coprinus radians , Fr., group of plants, showing the radiating mycelium ; 
nat. size. 
Fig. 7. Section through pileus of same ; nat. size. 
Fig. 8. Basidium with spores of same. X400. 
Fig. 9. Coprinus semistriatus , Pat., group of plants ; nat. size. 
Fig. 10. Section of same ; nat. size. 
Fig. 11. Section through a portion of the hymenium of the same, showing 
basidia bearing spores, also a cystidium. x 500. 
Fig. 12. Spores of same ; the spores are lentil-shaped ; one of the figures shows 
the surface of a spore, the other one the edge, x 500 (after Patouillard). 
Fig. 13. Coprinus umbrinus , Massee; a, the plant in a young stage of 
development, as yet completely enclosed in its white universal veil, which is 
beginning to crack, owing to the expansion of the pileus ; b, fully developed 
plant ; the universal veil remains in part as a volva with a free, drooping margin, 
sheathing the base of the stem, and partly as a central cap, and in the form of 
torn patches, on the surface of the pileus ; nat. size. 
