PLATE 19.
CoPBINUS LA G OPÜ S, F r.
F lie s , Hym. Mon. i. p. 403 ; E p ic r. p. 950. Be rk. B rit. Fung. p. 180.
Cooke, Handbook, p. 167.
COPBINUS s tip ite det)ili, fragillimo, undique albolauato ; pileo conico, tenerrimo,
elegante!- floccoso ; lamellis demum remotis, liberis, lin e a rib u s, d istan tib u s.
Pileus very slender, cylindrical, th en bell-shaped, when young elegantly
floccose, th e n hare, flattened and fissured, radiate-furrowed, one inch wide,
whitish, livid in th e d is k ; stesn very weak and fragile, five inches or more
long, one line thick, slightly atten u a ted a t b oth ends, everywhere white and
wooUy ; gills at length remote, linear, black. Varying with th e stem two to
th re e inches long, and th e pileus an inch to two inches wide. Shady woods
an d road-sides.—Fries.
Pileus conical, with the flesh very th in , finely and regularly s tr ia te ;
stem hollow, delicately silky, fiocculent and white, woolly at th e b a s e ; gills
black, very close, mostly in one series, with a marginal one occasionally
inse rted forming a second series, sometimes in three series, the in te r mediate
ones very irreg u la r in length.
Fig. 1, growing on decaying wood on th e ground, Keldale, Yorkshire,
2 1 st Aug., 1854. Fig. 2, growing on liorse-dung, St. L eo n a rd ’s, 29th July,
1860.
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■ Figs. 1, a, Goprinus lagopus, Fr. Figs. 3, 4, section of ditto.—
T-W Savmders.del. W.G.S.lith.
Coprinus la g o p u s , Fr.