coprinus

I think of the angle of repose the manure pile assumes, how sparrows come to pick the redelivered grain, how inky-cap coprinus mushrooms spring up in a downpour.

October 2006 Franki 2006

I think of the angle of repose the manure pile assumes, how sparrows come to pick the redelivered grain, how inky-cap coprinus mushrooms spring up in a downpour.

Poetry Friday Mary Lee 2006

I think of the angle of repose the manure pile assumes, how sparrows come to pick the redelivered grain, how inky-cap coprinus mushrooms spring up in a downpour.

Archive 2006-10-01 Franki 2006

Springing from a log lying by the fence a dozen plants of the glistening coprinus have reared themselves since morning, fresh from the rain and flavored as sweet as a nut.

Some Summer Days in Iowa Frederick John Lazell 1905

The lactaria sheds hot, white milk when you cut it, and the inky coprinus sheds black rain of its own accord.

Some Summer Days in Iowa Frederick John Lazell 1905

= -- The glistening coprinus received its name because of the very delicate scales which often cover the surface of the cap, and glisten in the light like particles of mica.

Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886

In wet weather this coprinus melts down into an inky fluid also, but in quite dry weather it remains more or less firm, and sometimes it does not deliquesce at all, but dries with all parts well preserved, though much shrunken of course, as is the case with all the very fleshy fungi.

Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886

Does the coprinus digest itself by virtue of a pepsin similar to the maggots '?

The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869