92 An HISTORY of FUNGUSSES. 



CV j PHALLUS volvatus Jlipitatus, pileo albo celhilofo, apice pervio. 



,. Hudfon An*l. 629. Phallus volvatus Jlipitatus pileo cellulofo. 



mtmcus. ^ pi i6 ^ ^^ Fun ^ r ^ pig. A,D,B,C. 



Mich. Gen. T. 83. Hall. Hijl. 224.8. 



STINKING MOREL L. 



TAB. XCII. 



'T^HE root confifts of one pricipal fibre, the fize of a pack- 

 ■*■ thread, and about a fpan long ; it is foft, flexible, white, 

 and emits a few other capillary fibres from its fides. 



When the plant firft appears above ground, it is of the co- 

 lour, fhape, and fize of an hen's egg, as at a. foon after, the outer 

 fkin or foft iliell breaks at the fummit, and begins gradually to 

 Hide down and difcover a thick coat, of ftiff, glewy, pale co- 

 loured, tranfparent jelly, b. in the fpace of an hour this jelly 

 Aides down to the root, in great wrinkles, and difcovers another 

 volva, c. which is divided, about half way down, into three thick 

 white, obtufe lobes, which gradually give way to a conical pileus, 

 that makes its appearance in the fpace of an hour. 



The pileus, d. is at firft thickly covered with a fhining fub- 

 ftance, of a blackifh green colour, which rubbed between the 

 fingers, looks like a moift foft powder, and which foon begins 

 to melt, and fall off, in a thick, black, turbid, intolerably 

 fcetid gelly ; by this time the ftem, g. has acquired its proper 

 height, four or five inches ; it is hollow and fmooth within, its 

 fubftance cellular, light, and fpongy. The pileus alfo, after 

 the difcharge of the gelly, becomes cellular and white ; but 

 thefe cells are much larger than thofe in the ftem ; the infide 

 is fmooth, and lightly adheres to the ftem, at its apex: at 

 laft the ftem becomes loofe in its own proper focket, h. falls 

 and becomes the food of infects. 



In the cavity of the ftem, adhering to the top, and appear- 

 ing as if enclofed in a membrane, hangs a piece of pellucid 

 gelly, of a ftiff, but rather trembling fubftance, as at i. 



I watched the progrefs of this plant on the 20th of Sep- 

 tember, 1776, when this defcription was written. 



Grows in woods and hedges about Halifax, but rarely. 



