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Pl.cell.aph. ll.IIYMENOTHECEiE. 259.Copnn. 635
Agaricus copriiius disseminatus, Persoon Syn. 403.
On the trunks of willows, especially when hollow ; autumn.
/3. strlatus. Thallus rather large.
Agaricus striatus, Sowerhi) Fungi, 166.
14. Coprinus domest'icus. House dung'-stool.
Cap bellshape, blunt, waved, furrowed, smoke-grey
scales branny ; gills crowded, linear, forming a collar,
greyish-red, growing blackish-brown.
Agaricus coprinus doinesticus, Persoon Si/n. 404.
Agaricus domesticus, JBoU. Fung, 26.
In houses near moist walls.
\ 5. Coprinus pidcher.
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Handsome ditng-sfool.
Thallus tender, ephemeral ; stem long, reddish-white
cap umbilicated, flattish, plaited; plaits broadish, grey;
gills free, distant, forming a collar.
Agaricus coprinus pulcher, Persoon Syn. 404.
Agaricus semistriatus, Fl. Dan, 1134.
Agaricus plicatus, Curtis Land.
In well-dunijed 2;ardens.
16. Coprinus radidtus. Radiated dung-stool.
Thallus very minute, grey, ephemeral; stem threadlike;
cap grows flattish, splitting in rays ; centre ochre-yellow j
gills distant.
Agaricus radiaUis, Bolt. Fung. 39 ;
Persoon Syn. 40T.
Agaricus ephemerus, Bull. Herb. 342.
In grass-land in woods, on horsedung ; autumn.
Thallus very tender, blown down by the breath.
D. AsTEROPHORiDEiE. Folua ; stem centra] ; collar ;
cap hemispherical, texture fibrous, beneath lamellar, above
woolly, at length bursting, becoming floccular; gills bar-
ren, naked; sporidia stellate, intermixed with theflocci.
XVIII. 260. ASTEROPHORA. Ditmar. Starhead.
Stem central, orbicular ; sporidia stellate.
yisterophora lycoperdoides. Lycoperdon starhead.
Stem woolly, greyish; cap woolly, fawn-colour; gills
rather gelatinous, thick, slightly prominent, gyey.
Agaricus lycoperdoides, Bull. Herb. 519; Persoon Syn. 325.
On rotten mushrooms, especially omphalia adusta.
Stem above an inch long, rather bent; cap half an inch
over.