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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Phallus. 
: sakes high, tol inch diameter... Pilend buffy or brownish, 
entirely | united to the stem, from the size of a s, to that 
of a swan’s egg; cells very Jarge, angular like a ae _ 
Colour pale yell W5 or buff, TOws. toa mee size. Mr. Woopw. 
- Woods and hedges in lodmy soil.” ' May. 
Var. Dy : Smit Oe ephins thos’ rai i 
oie Babeeis, 2 ee 5 a 
On sandy: heath, Norfolk. aay Sein eseans davgag. ots 
" 3h #3 + teva g¢hy Riz 
ees Pileus Sone aaaies AGAIN ete not ‘tite 
~ to the stem: stem =. the piles, and ome 
at the-end. Roe she oe 
_ Bull. 182-Catte. 5-Sehefe 198. 197. 196-Bolt. 926 
! d. 2. Phallus: f. 3—Fledan. 17 5-Ray cat. 
: + ps 122s ed. tim ‘Battar. 4 B, CG, D-Sterb: 30. B, 
Cy at P.276-Clus, s8¢ 295—Dids 483-Eaby ic. 4h. 97 5% 
ee em. 1583. 2-Park. 1322. 13-7. B. tii. 845. 1- 
Sterb. 30. B, F, G, at p. 276—Barr. 1258-7. B. ‘iit, 
843. 3-Sterb. 30. A, D-Pet. fil. 17.13. 14-Clus. ii. 
286. 2-F. B. iii. 845. 2~Stérb. 30. I, H, at p. 276, and 
Barr..1264, exhibit no angen of a = open at the 
end, but are probably the. same. 
Though this plant is» so intolerably foetid ‘hat it is much 
oftener ‘smelt than seen, yet in its egg state it has no offensive 
— : i i =: in the green. matter capers fills: the 
soft : is very) particu. 
larly by the forge tive flesh ang Ini its egg-state eee the 
size of a small pullet’s egg, and remains many days before it 
bursts through its wrapper ; but, this: being done, the. stem 
pushes up with amazing rapidity, attaining the height of 4 of 
5 inches in afew hours. "'This’ offensive ‘green matter contains 
the seeds, which may be seen by the assistance of a good mi- 
croscope. Such as have courage to smell this matter closely, will 
find it much less disagreeable than ata distance ; «for it then 
seems to have a slight pungency like that of . volatile:salts. Its’ 
odour very soon perya es a whole house.. The. wrapper is lined 
with a clear jelly like the white of an age, but stiffer; within 
_ this is found the green mattér, and within that the P hk plant. 
When it shoots up, the wrapper and the clear jelly remain at 
the Toot : ae stem is heaies within porous and ‘spongy | like 
fs ee" roy ee - Hike: 
Wer common in wet wet summers in hedge banks and. thickets. 
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