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inches high; the spore-bearing apex blunt or clavate, livid, 

 becoming black when dry; spores sometimes spherical 3 u , or 

 elongate 2x5 fi. 



Apparently rare. Seldom collected, more often reported. 

 Small objects as they are, they are possibly even more pun- 

 gently odoriferous than any of the rest. They seem to rise 

 in colonies in fields and gardens, even in cellars! Some speci- 

 mens before us are not more than an inch high. 



