TEICHOGASTEES. 



367 



Gen. 66 



BATARREA, Pers. 



Yolva universal, central stratum gela- 

 tinous. Receptacle pileiform, bursting 

 through the volva, seated at the top of a 

 tall stem. — Berk. Outl.p. 299. 



{Fig. III.) 



Fig. 111. 



1068. 



Batanrea phalloides. P, " Scarce Batarrea." 



Stem equal. Spores brownish. — i^r. >S'.il/. iii./>. 7. Woodw. 

 Phil. Trans, v. 14.,p. 423, t. 2^:>. Ann. X.H. no. 303. Smith. Spic. 

 It. 12. Sow.t.^'dO. Pers.Si/n.t.3,f.l. Nees.f.2ol. Eng.Fl. 

 Y.p. 298. Hook.Journ.l^4.^.t.22,f.l.Bisch.f.^4.m. Corda. 

 Anl. t. E.f. 50, no. 4-6. 



On sandhills, or hollows of old trees. Eare. Xew Brighton. 

 Dropmore. 



Whole plant more or less of a brown hue. Exterior volva ovate, fleshy, 

 dirty-white, inclining to brown, buried 6-8 in. in the sand, with a few dirty- 

 white floccose hairs at the base, middle volva much thinner, and almost 

 membranaceous, connected with the outer by mucilage, smooth within : inner 

 volva internally villous, covered with very abundant yellow-brown dust-like 

 seed ; externally concave and smooth. Stem formed within the cavity of the 

 interior volva, cylindric, straight, short, fleshy, filled with mucilage, but 

 afterwards elongated upwards with wonderful force and quickness, and pro- 

 truded through the soil, carrying with it almost the whole inner volva. ad- 

 nate with its apex, and covered, with a portion of the outer coat torn ofi", in 

 the same manner. Immediately after maturity it becomes dry, as also the 

 volva ; tubular within, and externally fibrous, and remains a long time 

 bleached and tossed about by wind and rain. — Smith. (Fig. Ill, reduced.) 



