Tuber.] 



FUNGI. 227 



n. 1054. Hook. Fl. Loud, cum Ic — Grei\ Fl. Ed, p. 41S. 

 Sc. Crypt. Fit. 2n, 214. 



In woods, thickets, Sec. Summer and autumn. Not uncommon : 

 but frequently, when, from its peculiar odour, it is quite certain that it 

 is near at hand, it escai)es observation from being covered with leaves 



and loose sticks Uterus about as large as a hen's egg, consisting of 



two coats distended with jelly, besides which there is another delicate 

 membrane immediately surrounding the pilcus. Stem rapidly elon- 

 gated, when full grown 4— G inches high, 1 inch thick hollow, at first 

 closed at the apex, at length pierced with one or two perforations. 



2. P. idsmos, Berk, (violet scented Stinhhorn) ; pala reddish- 

 grey, pileus free conical reticulated, borders of the reticulations 

 strongly toothed. FhaUas, Curt. Brit. Ent. v. 10. t. 469. 



Sand hills. Lowestoffe. Mr. Curtis. — " Scent somewhat like 

 violets at a distance when growing, but very olfensive when dried." 

 Curt. l. c. The above is all the information respecting this apparently 

 well marked species, which is afibrded by Mr. Curtis in the beautiful 

 and truly scientific work quoted above. 1 am unable to find any account 

 of it, though possibly some of the Herbalists may have noticed it. 



3. P. canimis, Huds. (red-headed Stinhhorn) ; pileus pressed 

 close to the stem ovate tubercuhited impervious red but clothed 

 at first with greenish mucus. Huds. p. 630. Ciut. Lond. t, 

 235. Fr. Sijst. Myc. v. 2. p. 284. Ph. ijiodorus, Sow. t. 330. 

 Purt. V. 2 c^- 3. n. 1055. With. v. 4. p, 316. 



Woods and hedges. Autumn. Common in the south of England, 

 more rare in th.e midland and northern counties, — Uterus about the 

 size of a hazel-nut. Stem hollow, very pale orange. FUeus covered 

 with green, scentless mucus, beneath which it is red and wrinkled. This, 

 like P. impudicus, when placed in the egg state in a box overnight, if 

 sufficiently advanced, will be found j)erfectly developed in the morning. 



(Of this groupe, Phalloide.e, is that most extraordinary Genus 

 Aseroe, of which, a plant having sprung uj) in the soil from N. Holland 

 at the Royal Gardens of Kew, it will be proper to characterize briefly 

 the Genus and Species in a note below.*) 



** TuBERACEyT). Sporauf/ia membranaceous scattered on the 

 serpentine vein-lihe hynicniuniy included in the concrete uterus. 

 Sporidia at Jirst pulpy. 



48. Tuber. Mich. Truffle. 

 Uterus closed, marbled with veins internally. Sporangia 



* AsERuE. La Bill. Aseroe. 



Receptacle stipitate, the border rudiate ; liays bifid. 



1. A. rubra, l.a Bill, {red Aser'ik) ; JLubillardure Vot/. All. ». 12. Aser'oe 

 rubra, Fr. Si/st. Mijc.'r. *J. ;». '!'<>. 



♦' In soil riom Ni-w llollaml jit Kew." Jlonk. — Stem pervious, pink ; ratja 

 bright nd, l)irtd, tin- apices attniunted and Mnuewhat finhose ; /it/menium 

 • oMt'iiifd to a riiifr just above the oiiKin «d' the lavs. S/Hiridia very minute, 

 oblonn-iUii.tir, sul»Vusitiirnj in the dry jijant ; tiie mass, when moi>ttnrd, 

 ^leinish. In C/nthrus camrllatus the s/jo; /(//a are evi-ii sujalbr, but scarcely 

 so niurh inrlined to be ru«.irorni. In Sintbliim jicrijiltraijuwidrf, K/ntzsch, in 

 I/imk. Init. Misc. r. '.]. V. l().j, the fjwridia, ol'\>hich no uccuuul is therv given., 

 are largi-r and truly elliptic. 



