T A B. CCCXXIX. 



PHALLUS FOETIDUS. 



iMPUDicus. Linn. 



JL HESE are called Stinkhorns in moft country places. 

 The odour is by forae compared to rotten cheefe, by 

 others to burning bricks, bones, and the fumes of 

 hartihorn manufa61:orie3 ; but we think, with M\\ 

 Curtis, that the fmell is peculiar to itfelf. We have 

 found this Fungus in moft woody places where we 

 have been about London, as in Kenlington Gardens, 

 and alfo about Norwich. It feems to be propagated by 

 the root, which is very fibrous, and generally con- 

 tains numerous bulbs, from the fize of a pin s head 

 to that of a common hen's egg. When approaching 

 to maturity the greater part of the plant is above 

 ground. The ftipes is a good example of fudden 

 growth, as we have known it to rife fix inches in 

 as many hours. The pileus hangs over the ftipes in 

 the form of a cap. The top is a little expanded, and 

 perforated by one or two holes, below which are 

 cellular reticulations holding the dark foetid jelly- 

 like fubftance, which probably contains the feeds, 

 and which quickly attracts flies and other infects, 

 who foon devour it without any apparent injury to 

 themfelves. 



TAB. CCCXXX. 



PHALLUS iNODORUS. 



. cANiNUs. Hudf.Fl.jingl.6jQ. Curt.Lond. 



fafc. 4. /. 73. 



JL fllS curious little plant is more rare than the above. 

 I have feen it at Hampftead in Lord Mansfield's wood, 

 where Mr. Hunter the gardener finds it annually. I 

 have alfo formd it abundantly in General Money's 

 plantations near Norwich, v/here I have obferved the 

 creeping root more than half a yard long, with the 

 bulbs, fome juft formed, and others quite arrived at ma- 

 turity. 1 hefe either contain the plant in its more 

 or lefs perfect ftate, or are found occafionally empty ; 

 for it often happens, with this as well as the former 

 fpecies, that the ftipes and all above it are difcharged 

 by the elaftic force, or collapfing, of the volva or bulb. 

 The bulb is more ovate than the laft ; the ftipes is of 

 a fimilar conftru(5lion ; the top or head is continued 

 from the ftipes, having horizontal plaits, and is of a 

 brick red, covered with an olive-coloured powder, 

 mixed with a gelatinous inodorous fubftance, and pfo- 

 tecfted by a thin membrane. The ftipes of this plant will 

 expand as rapidly as the laft. I have often placed 

 fpecimens by a window over night while in the egg 

 form, and they have been fully grown by the morning. 

 They have never grown with me in the day-time. 



