Annual Report of the State Botanist 1892 - MykoWeb

Report of the State Botanist. 69
the dried specimens. They extend half way to the disk or more.
"When dry the pileus is seen to be sprinkled with shining atoms
as in some other species of the same genus. Occasionally the
yellow cuticle cracks into squamules or small scales.
Galera coprinoid.es Pk.
CoPEiNus-LiKE Galera.
(Twenty-surth State Mus. Rep. p. 59. Agaricua plicatellus Twenty-ninth Rep. p. 66.)
Pileus membranous, campanulate, soon expanded, often split
on the margin, plicate-sulcate to the small even disk, yellowish or
ochraceous-yellow ; lamellae narrow, close, rounded behind,
colored like the pileus; stem slender, equal, hollow, minutely
hairy or pruinose, white ; spores elliptical, .00028 to .0003 in. long,
.0002 broad.
Pileus about 6 lines broad ; stem about 1 in. long, half a line
thick.
Grassy ground. Cayuga county. August.
This small plant was discovered in 1872, but I have not found
it since. It is manifestly very rare. The structure of the pileus
and its plications are strongly suggestive of the character of the
pilei of some of the small species of
the name.
Coprinus, as is indicated by
The name Agaricus plicatellus was substituted for Agaricus
coprinoides when it was found that the latter name had been
previously applied to another species, but since the former sub-
genus Galera has been raised to generic rank it permits the
restoration of the original specific name.