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ti Pilous sulmiembraiiaceous, ovate, then expanded, truncate,
spotted with scales, dirty white ; stem stuffed, rather ventricose,
tuberously rooting with runners ; ring fugaL'ious ; gills free, ventricose,
pallid, becoming black.—Coo/ce Illus. t. 848.
A t the base of trunks.
Spores 15 X 7 0. G.M.
8 3 2 . Coprinus fu s c e sc en s. Fr. Eym. Fur. 322.
Fuscescens — becoming dusky (fuscus.)
Pileus submembranaceous, ovate, then expanded, unpolished ;
diso rather fleshy, even or cracked ; stem hollow, fragile, incurved,
subfibrillose, scarcely annulate ; gills affixed, umber-black.—Cooke
Illus. t. 663.
On dead stumps.
Spores 10-12 x 5 p.. G.M.
var. rimoso-squamosus. Cooke. Illus. t. 664.
Rimo'so-squamo’sus, from rima = a crack, and squama = a scale.
Pilens becoming cracked into angular patches.
About stumps.
PioACEi . Universal veil flocculose, at first continuous, then
broken up into superficial areolate scales.
8 3 3 . Coprinus p ica c eu s. Fr. Eym. Fur. 323.
Pica'ceus, from pica = a magpie ; variegated, pied.
Pileus membranaceous, ovato-campanulate, striate, variegated
with broad, ivhite, superficial scales; stem hollow, bulbous, not
rooting, fragile, smooth ; gills free, ventricose, cinereous-black.—
Sow. t. 170. Cooke Illus. t. 665.
On roadsides, &o.
8 3 4 . Coprinus aphthosus. Fr. Eym. Fur. 323.
Ap/ii/io'sws = suffering from “ the thrush ” (fitpeai). From the
floccose scales.
Pileus membranaceous, ovato-campanulate, without striæ,
sprinkled with superficial floccose scales, then naked ; stem hollow,
equal, twisted, fibrillose ; gills adnate, linear, wliite, then black.—
Bolt. t. 26. Cooke Illu s. t. 6 6 6 . after Bolton.
In hollow trees, cellars, &c.
Spores 13-16 X 10 p. G.M.
8 3 5 . Coprinus flo cculo su s. B . C. Flor. Fr. v., 45.
Flocculo'sus ^ i \ A \ of flocks of wool (flocci), floccose.
Pileus membranaceous, ovate, then expanded, striate, discoid,
dirty w h ite ; clothed with evanescent floccose scales, a t length
smooth ; stem hollow, equal, smooth, naked ; gills remote, ventricose,
violaceous, then brownish-black.—Fr. Hym. Fur. 323. Cooke
Illus. t. 667.
In pastures.
Spores 10 X 8 ii. G.M.
8 3 6 . Coprinus s im ilis . B. Sf Bv. Ann. N. E., 1865, No. 1011.
Sim'ilis = \fke. Because it has the habit of the preceding
species (Fries).
Pileus ovato-campanulate, lineato-striate, pallid, centre obscurely
hygrophanous, clothed with acute brown warts ; stem hollow, white,
largest at the b ase; gills adnate, attenuated behind, sublinear,
brownish near the margin.—Fr. Hym. Fur. 323.
On trunks of dead trees.
J J T ombntosi. Pileus at first floccose, or loosely villose.
8 3 7 . Coprinus e x s tin c to r iu s . Fr. Eym. Fur. 324.
Exstinctor'ius, from exstinctor = an extinguisher. Prom its
shape.
Pileus snbmembranaceons, clavate, then campanulate, straight,
margin striate, a t first clothed with evanescent floccose scales;
stem hollow, attenuated from the rooting base, smooth ; gills reaching
the stem, lanceolate, white, then brown-black.—Bolt. t. 24.
Cooke Illus. t. 6 6 8 .
On the gronnd.
Spores 10-11 X 6 y. G.M.
8 3 8 . Coprinus fimetarius. Fr. Eym. Fur. 324.
Fimetarnus = of or belonging to a dung-hill, fimetum.
Pileus submembranaceous, clavate, then conical, soon torn and
revolute, a t first rough with ivhite floccose scales, then naked, longitudinally
rimoso-sulcate, even a t the apex ; stem squamulose,
thickened a t the base, solid ; gills free, lanceolate, then linear and
flexuose, black.— Cooke Illu s. t. 669.
On dung heaps.
Spores 12 X 6 /i. G.M.
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