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The sporophore is usually red, smeared more or less 

 with the green, fetid slime containing the spores. This 

 slime is greedily devoured by flies, its whereabouts being 

 indicated by the penetrating smell, aided by the bright red 

 colour ; by this means the spores are disseminated. 



The species are most abundant in tropical countries; 

 there are about half-a-dozen outlying species in Europe, 

 three of which are British. Our commonest form, Phallus 

 impudicus, has a whitish sporophore, whereas the same 

 structure is red in Mutinus caninus, and bright red in the 

 beautiful but abominably fetid Clathrus cancellatus. 



Burt, 'Phalloideae of U. States,' Bot. Gaz., 22 (1896). 



Engler and Prantl, ' Basidiomyceten,' Pflanzenfam., i , 

 pt. 2, p. 105 (1898). 



Fries, Hymenomycetes Europaei (1874). 



Fischer, ' Researches on Development and Classification 

 of the Phalloideae,' N. Denkschr. Schweiz. Ges., 33 



(1893)- 



Hollos, Die Gasteromyceten Ungarns (1904). 



Lloyd, 'A Critical Survey of the Gasteromycetes,' 

 Numerous Memoirs. Privately printed. 



Massee, ' Mon. gen. Lycoperdon,' Journ. R. Micr. Soc., 

 1887, p. 701. 



Massee, 'Rev. gen. Bovista,' Journ. Bot., 26, p. 129 

 (1888). 



Massee, 'Mon. gen. Calostoma,' Ann. Bot., 2, p. 25 

 (1888). 



Massee, * Mon. Brit. Gastromycetes,' Ann. Bot., 4, p. i 

 (1889). 



Massee, ' Mon. gen. Podaxis,'/**. Bot., 28, p. 33 and 

 69 (1890). 



