228 FUNGI. [Phallus, 



45. Periola. Fr. Periola. 



Rootless, fleshy, furnished with a persistent villous bark— 

 Named from crs^/, around, and louXog, down, 



1. P. tomentosa, Fr. {tomentose Periola) ; rounded irregular 

 tomentose white. Fr. Obs. l./>. 205. Syst.Myc. v. 2.p.'2^7, 



Oil Potatoes Apetiiorpe and King's Cliife, N9rths., Rev. M. J, 



Berkeley. 



46. Spermoedia. Fr. Ergot. 



Substance suhfarinaceous ; epidermis connate, squamulose or 

 subpruinose. — Named from c-n'BDjj.a, seed, and sibsco, to resemble. 



1. S. Cldvus, D. C. (common Ergot) ; horn-shaped cylindrical 

 externally subpruinose purple-black, white or sometimes pur- 

 plish within. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 2. p. 268. — Scl. clavus, Dec, 

 I. c. f. 8. — Sphacelia segetum, Kl. Fung. Germ.! exs. n. 56. 

 Farinaria Poce, Sow. t. 396./. 6. 



Produced within the seeds of various Gramina, as Secale, Agrostis, 

 Dactglis, Festuca, Elymus, kc. Not very common, but diffused in greater 

 or less abundance tiiroughout the whole of Great Britain. — Not less 

 celebrated on account of the dreadful diseases which it produces when 

 abounding amongst corn, than for its invaluable uses as a medicine, 

 arising from its extraordinary specific action on the uterus. It appears 

 to be only a diseased state of the grain, and has scarcely a sufficient 

 claim to be admitted amongst Fungi as a distinct genus. The only way 

 of deciding the point would be to institute inquiries as to the manner 

 in which it commences its growth, as Brongniart has done respecting 

 Uredo Segetum, Ann. des^ Sciences, v. 20. p. 171. The external 

 coat is suhfarinaceous, and very different from any thing I have seen in 

 Sclerotium. 



Suborder II. Gaster03[YCETES. (from yadrri^,' the belly, 

 and /Mvy/zig, afujigtis). Hymenium included witJmi the uteriform 

 excipulum. 



Tribe I. Angiogastres (from ayysio'j, a receptacle, and yadrrio, 

 the belly). Uterus distinct from the included proper receptacle, on 

 which the Sporidia are spread. 



* Phalloide^ (from Phallus). Receptacle distinct, cdlength 

 bursting through the excipidum. SjJoridia forming a mucous 

 stratum. 



47. Phallus. Mich. Stinkhorn. 



Receptacle stipitate, pileiform ; border entire. — Named from 

 tpy.Xkog. 



1. P. impudicus, L. (common Stinkhorn) ; pileus free conical 

 pervious reticulated, borders of the reticulations nearly entire. 

 Lin?i. Suec. n. 1261. Bolt. t. 92. Fr. Sijst. Myc. v. 2. p. 283. 

 P.fcetidus, Sow. t. 329. With. v. 4. p. 315. Purt. v, 2 S>' 3. 



