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PHALLOIDACE.E 



Mutinus 



2044. M. bambusinus Fisch. (from its original place of growth, at 



the base of bamboos, bambusa) a. 



P. long, acutely conical, tuberculose or rugose, dull purple. Rec. 

 elongate-fusiform, imperforate, spongy-cellular, pallid rubigi- 

 nous or rosy. 

 Very fetid. Height Sj in. 



CIX. CLATHRUS Mich. 

 (From the latticed receptacle ; dathrus, a lattice.) 



Receptacle hollow, globose, latticed, the meshes at first filled and 

 covered inside by olive-brown sporiferous mucus. (Fig. 125.) 



il-RE. 



Fig. 125. Clathrus cancellatus Tournef. -One-half natural size. 



A, young plant. B, ditto in section, c, mature plant, left half entire. D, ditto in section. 

 K, basidium and spores, X 750. G, gleba ; GE, gelatinous stratum of volva ; RE, receptacle. 



2045. C. eaneellatus L. (from the lattice-like receptacle ; cancellatus, 



latticed) a b c. 



Rec. sessile, globose or ovate, the branches triangular in section 

 with a flat face outwards, orange-vermilion outside, vermilion- 

 crimson inside, inner sporiferous mucus dark olive, enclosing a 

 central mass of soft dark gelatine. Vo. of two white mem- 

 branes, marked internally and externally with lines corre- 

 sponding with the lattice within. Myc. cord-like. 

 Single or ccespitose. Highly fetid. Plantations, gardens, stoves. Oct. -Nov. 

 4f X 3 in. The interior of the receptacle at length drips with olive- 

 brown mucus. 



