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of jelly which dissipates in water and like the spores is of a 

 dark green color ; spores elliptic oblong, even, minute, 3-5^ 

 mi6. in length. 



Fungi terrestrial, of large size, characterized by receptacles 

 exceedingly remarkable for their varied and singular shape, and 

 possessing an extremely offensive odor. 



TABLE OF GENERA OF PHALLOIDE^. 



I. Phallete. Receptacle consisting of an elongated stipe 

 bearing the gleba on a conical pileus at its apex. 



1. Phallus. Pileus attached only to the apex of the stipe, 

 dependent free all around below. 



2. MuTiNus. Pileus wholly adnate to the summit of the stipe. 



II. Clathre^e. Receptacle a hollow clathrate body, with the 

 gleba attached to the upper part of the inner surface. 



3. Clathrus. Receptacle composed oi obliquely anastomos- 

 ing bars and sessile. 



4. Simblum. Receptacle composed of obliquely anastomosing, 

 bars and stipitate. 



5. Laternea. Receptacle composed of a few vertical columns 

 and sessile. 



I. PHALLE^. Receptacle consisting of an elongated stipe 

 bearing the gleba on a conical pileus at its apex. Stipe cylindric, 

 hollow, composed of one to several layers of round-celled tissue ;, 

 the gleba accupying the outer surface of the pileus. 



Genus I. — Phallus, Mich. 



Stipe hollow within, the wall composed of several layers of round- 

 celled tissue ; pileus attached only to the apex of the stipe, depen- 

 dent free all around below, the gleba occupying its outer surface. 



The genus may be divided into two subgenera by the presence 

 or absence of an appendage called the indusium or veil hanging 

 from the apex of the stipe beneath the pileus ; this veil in one group 

 is evidently the outer cellulose layer of the stipe, in the other it is 

 the thin membrane which separates the stipe from the pileus. 



I. HYMENOPHALLUS. An indusium or veil surrounding: 

 he stipe and dependent from its apex beneath the pileus. 



