64 NATURAL HISTORY BULLETIN. 



it is generally pretty closely gregarious, six or eight sporo- 

 carps coming sometimes to light within a very narrow area. 

 It comes to fruit often under board walks, steps, and in similar 

 inacessible localities, where it speedily makes its presence felt 

 to the annoyance of a household or whole neighborhood. 

 Carrion-flies assail the gleba, no sooner it is expanded, and 

 sometimes seem to denude the pileus in very short time. 

 May not Phallus ravenellii be a phase of this species? We 

 often rind specimens in which the veil simply emerges below 

 the pileus, and the perforation is much more marked in some 

 specimens than in others. At least, we have otherwise failed 

 to identify the last named species in this locality. 



2. Phallus duplicatus Bosc. 



In all respects like the preceding except that the pileus is 

 more conical, generally closed at apex, and is without the 

 naked apical annulus; the indusium long and laciniate, extend- 

 ing beyond the middle of the stipe or receptacle, plicate; 

 spores elliptic 2x4 «• 



Less common than the preceding species, similar to it but 

 smaller and probably distinct. Found occasionally in the 

 borders of woodlands, hazel-thickets, etc., and pungently 

 odorous. 



3. Phallus impudicus Linn. 



Volva as in the preceding, the segments usually fewer, 

 two or three; the receptacle white or yellowish, destitute of 

 indusium; pileus with gleba conic-campanulate, at first closed 

 at the apex, later perforate, spore-mass greenish or brownish, 

 spores translucent 2x4 ,«. 



Rare. Smaller than the preceding, usually 4-5 inches high 

 when expanded and proportionately slender. Occasionally 

 met with in umbrageous woods where leaves accumulate from 

 year to year. The odor characteristically pungent. 



II. MUTINUS. 

 Volva thin, ruptured irregularly; receptacle stipe-like, but 



