. British fungi (hymenomycetes). Basidiomycetes; Fungi -- Great Britain. BOLBITIUS. 361 In damp shady grassy places. Rare. Sept. Coprinus. Name—li^epa, a day; |3io?, life. Living for a day. Fr. Monogr. \. p. 468. Hym. Eur. p. 332. Berk. Out. p. 182. C. Hbk. >/. 479. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 439. Fl. Dan. t. 1960. f. 2. A. campanulatus Bolt. t. 31. GENUS IV.— Bolbitius cows' dung). Fr. Epicr. p. 253. Hymenophore somewhat separate. Universal veil none, partial one in most rudimentary. Gills membranaceous, soft, becoming moist (but not melting away), at length pulverulent with the separ-
. British fungi (hymenomycetes). Basidiomycetes; Fungi -- Great Britain. BOLBITIUS. 361 In damp shady grassy places. Rare. Sept. Coprinus. Name—li^epa, a day; |3io?, life. Living for a day. Fr. Monogr. \. p. 468. Hym. Eur. p. 332. Berk. Out. p. 182. C. Hbk. >/. 479. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 439. Fl. Dan. t. 1960. f. 2. A. campanulatus Bolt. t. 31. GENUS IV.— Bolbitius cows' dung). Fr. Epicr. p. 253. Hymenophore somewhat separate. Universal veil none, partial one in most rudimentary. Gills membranaceous, soft, becoming moist (but not melting away), at length pulverulent with the separ- ating spores. Spores ovate, even, somewhat ferruginous. Mucid, moist fungi, soonfading (and not reviving], yellowish. A small and very natural group, resembling the Coprini in the mode of growth, the Cortinarii in their fructification, and constituting there- fore a genus intermediate between these. To this genus is now referred A. hydrophilus, a species of doubtful affinity, and A. conoccpJialus. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 333. Intermediate on the one hand be- tween Agaric us and Coprinus, and on the other between Coprinus and Cortinarius. The species grow on dung, or manured ground near roads and towns. Their bright colour is attractive. 1. B. hydrophilus Fr. — Pileus about 4 cent, (i^ in.) broad, date-brown when moist, tawny when dry, fleshy-membranaceous, bullate then convex and expanded ; when fresh moist, even, when dry wrinkled (the prominent disc however even), the bent-in mar- gin undulated ; flesh, very thin, easily scissile, white when dry. Stems 5 cent. (2 in.) long, 2-4 mm. (1-2 lin.) thick, fistulose, some- what curved and often compressed, under a lens reticulated with fibrils, at first white then becoming ferruginous, obsoletely slightly mealy at the apex: Veil marginal, fringing, white, very fugaci- ous, often none. Gills adnate, vcntricose, so that occasionally they appear almost free, crowded, watery, shedding drops, date- br own-fuscous. XXXIX. Bolbitius fragil
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