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fleshy root, and sometimes one or two smaller, more lateral ones. The expanded plant 

 may reach a height of 17 cm. with the fertile, pendent, apical cap about 5 cm. long and 

 broad, its outer surface strongly chambered by anastomosing plates, over which the 

 brownish olive slime is spread. Between the cap and the stem, and hanging from the 

 top, is a beautiful net-like veil (technically the indusium) of a light rosy pink color that 

 extends below the cap for about 3-5 cm., the perforations being rather regular and 

 about 1-2 mm. broad except towards the margin where they become much smaller. 

 Stalk about 4.5 cm. thick, nearly cylindrical, very hollow and with chambered walls; 

 between its base and the volva is a thick, brownish yellow slime which is separated from 

 the stem by a thin membrane. The odor of the dark spore slime above is offensive but 

 not nearly so much so as in the species of Mutinus, being weaker and not so distressingly 

 fetid. 



Spores (of No. 5195) smooth, elliptic, 1.2-1.8 x 3.7-4.4/x. 



Not rare in Chapel Hill, occurring usually in a scattered colony of several in woods 

 mold in deciduous woods. Dictyophora phalloidea {Phallus indusiatus) is a closely 

 related tropical species. Fischer considers it the same as the above (1. c, 1890). See 

 this paper "for a long list of synonyms of D. phalloidea. 



Illustrations: Atkinson. 1. c, figs. 6, 7, 11, 13, 16. 

 Hard. Mushrooms, pi. 55. 

 Lloyd. Syn. Known Phalloids, fig. 16. 



Murrill. Chart of Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms, fig. 34. 

 Nees von Esenbeck. Syst. Pilze Schw., pi. 35, fig. 258. 1817. 

 Patterson and Charles. U. S. Dept. Agric. Bull. 175: pi. 35, fig. 1. 1915. 

 Rau. Bot. Gaz. 8: pi. 4 (a.s Phallus togatus). 1883. See Farlow, ibid., 8: 258. 



836a. On lawn of president's house, October 22, 1911. 



2286. On a ditch in woods, June 28, 1916. 



5195. In rich woods, June 20, 1922. 



5343. In deciduous woods near Forest Theater, July 8, 1922. Plant 12 cm. long. 



Asheville. Beardslee. 



Alabama. Winston Co. Underwood, coll. (N.Y. B. G Herb.). 



New York. New York Botanical Garden. Miss Eaton, coll. (N. Y. B. G. Herb.). 



Syracuse. Underwood, coll. (N. Y. B. G. Herb.). 

 Massachusetts. Middlesex Falls. Underwood, coll. (N. Y. B. G. HerD.). 

 Indiana. Greencastle. Underwood, coll. (N. Y. B. G. Herb.). 



