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smells in the world had been turned loose at that place. The eggs in 

 the sawdust can be gathered by the bushel. In Figure 449 is represented a cluster 

 of these eggs. The section of an egg in the center of the cluster shows the 

 outline of the volva, the pileus, and the embryo stem. Inside of the volva, in the 

 middle, is the short undeveloped stem ; covering the upper part and sides of the 

 stem is the pileus ; the fruit-bearing part, which is divided into small chambers, 

 lies on the outside of the pileus. The spores are borne on club-shaped basidia as 



Figure 448. Phallus Ravenelii. Two-thirds natural size. 



shown in Figure 448, within the chamber of the fruit-bearing part, and when the 

 spores mature, the stem begins to elongate and force the gleba and pileus through 

 the volva, leaving it at the base of the stem, as will be seen in Figure 448. The large 

 egg on the left in the background of Figure 449 is nearly ready to break the volva. 

 I brought in a large egg one evening and placed it on the mantle. Later in the 

 evening, the room being warm, while we were reading my wife noticed this egg 

 beginning to move and it developed in a few minutes to the shape you see in Figure 

 447- The development was so rapid that the motion was very perceptible. The 



