Phalloidese 



(Plate CLIX.) 



GENUS II. MUTI'NUS Fr. 



Stipe hollow within, the wall composed of a single layer of round.- Mutinus. 

 celled tissue. Pileus wholly adnate to the summit of the stipe, the 

 gleba occupying its outer surface. Morgan. 



Distinguished from Ithyphallus by the cap being adnate to the re- 

 ceptacle. 



M. cani'nus Fr. (Phallus caninus Berk. ; Phallus inodorus Sow.) 

 Receptacle elongate-fusiform, cel- 

 lular, white or rosy. Pileus short, 

 subacute, rugulose, red. Spores 

 cylindrical, involved in green mucus, 

 3-5x2^. 



In woods and bushy places. 

 Sporophore from %-% in. before 

 the volva is ruptured. When fully 

 evolved 3-4 in. high. Sometimes 

 scentless, at others with a distinct 

 odor, but never so strong and dis- 

 agreeable as in Ithyphallus impu- 

 dicus. Massee. 



Spores elliptic, 6x4^ Morgan; 

 3~5x2/A Massee. 



New England, Frost; New York, 

 Warm; West Virginia, New Jersey, 

 Pennsylvania, Mcllvaine. 



This species is common. Few 

 old woods are without it. It is con- 

 spicuous in color among the brown 

 of the forest carpet. The plant has 

 not the mal-odor of its relations, 

 but is not pleasant. In the egg 

 shape it is gelatinous, tenacious, 

 rather firm, edible and good when 



slired and fried MUTINUS CANINUS. 



(After Massee and Morgan.) 



M. bovi'nus Morg. Volva oblong-ovoid, pinkish, segments 2 or 3, 



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