118 The Botanical Gazette. i [ 
it grows, and, though sometimes sessile, is usually ra 
upon a more or less clearly defined stalk, which, not in 
only separating and entering its main lobes, but extending 
the peridial wall within which it forms a continuous layer, 4) 
separating these two structures, except at definite points J 
where they are Closely united. This gelatinous portion ® 
composed of rather slender hyphae, branching and intertwit 
ing irregularly, among which numerous vesicular clamp-to™ 
nections are conspicuous, one or both of the adjacent cell end 
at such points being abruptly and very considerably infla 
The gleba, the color and minute structure of which ® 
similar to that of other phalloids, is irregularly lobed, and, ® 
tervals by certain slightly projecting areas of the inner ae 
of the peridial wall. These prominences, which are —_ 
a 
