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scentless mucus; stalk hollow, white, faintly tinted with ochre, or 

 orange; volva pale buff-brown. 



Uncommon, growing among decayed leaves in woods and 

 hedges. 



GENUS XXIX.—CLATHRUS Mich. 



Volva be- 

 coming torn at 

 the apex in a 

 laciniate man- 

 ner; receptacle 

 sessile,forming 

 an obovate or 

 globular hollow 

 network, at 

 first covered 

 with mucus 

 the 

 There 



containing 



spores 



Fig. 63.— Clathrus canccllatus Tourn. (One-third natural size.) 



is only one British species. 



162. Clathrus cancellatus Tourn. — Receptacle vermilion or 

 bright orange red, covered when young with olive mucus; spores 

 cylindrical, colourless. Odour very foetid. 



On the ground, in gardens and woods. 



ORDER VIII.— LYCOPERDACEyE. 



In the Lycoperdacem the peridium is double, and the hymenium 

 at length dries up into a dusty mass of threads 

 {capilUtium) and spores. There are five British 

 genera, of which four are represented by models. 



GENUS XXX.—BATARREA Pers. 



In Datarrea the volva is universal, central 

 stratum gelatinous, and the receptacle pilciform, 

 bursting through the volva, elevated at the top 

 of a tall stalk. 



163. Batarrea phalloides Pers. — Recep- 

 tacle on top of stalk, forming a pileus, covered 

 with a brown, dusty mass of spores ; stalk long, 

 straight and firm, hollow, but filled with thin 

 mucilage, exterior coarsely fibrous-scaly ; volva 

 pale bufl-brown, torn, containing jelly. 



D. phalloides is very rare ; it has been ^. , „ . 



'^' r J » jiMi Fir. 64.— Batarrea 



found in old hollow trees and on sandhills, ^oides ivrs. 

 sometimes in the winter. The fungus springs ^-araphyscs'and 

 from a volva like Plialltts and Mutinus. x 200. 



phal- 



(C)ne- 



size.) 



sjioree 



