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RESEARCHES ON FUNGI 



FIG. 80. Phallus impudicus a fungus which attracts both dung- 

 flies and slugs. A fruit-body just after expansion showing : 



(1) the dark-green, spore-containing, sweet, malodorous, 

 glebal fluid which covers the cap and serves to attract flies : 



(2) the white bread-like stipe which is sought out and eaten 

 with avidity by the slug, Limax maximus ; and (3) the 

 ruptured gelatinous peridium. From Sutton Park, War- 

 wickshire, England. Expansion took place in the laboratory. 

 Natural size. 



