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ink-cap
noun
- any of several saprotrophic agaricaceous fungi of the genus Coprinus, whose caps disintegrate into a black inky fluid after the spores mature. It includes the shaggy ink-cap ( Coprinus comatus ), also called lawyer's wig , a distinctive fungus having a white cylindrical cap covered with shaggy white or brownish scales
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The ink cap is usually found growing in autumn, rarely in summer, in richer earth than the common mushroom.
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