Fungi of the Plains of India. 21 



This is one of the most interesting Agarics with which I 

 am acquainted. The whole pileus is veined. Agaricus jphlebo- 

 phoriiSj which belongs to a different sub-genus, is the only one 

 with which I can compare it. 



4. Podaxon carcinomalis, Fries. ; Lycoperdon carcinomale, 

 Linn. hi. (Figs. 1 to 4). jjjAt first cylindrical, obtuse, white with 

 -a few brown elongated adpressed. scales, gradually becoming 

 clavate above, with the scales standing out, then with a dis- 

 tinct elliptic head; stem nearly smooth, penetrating deeply, 

 and surrounded within the thick peridium with the hymenium, 

 which is at first porous like the crumb of a loaf, and then, as in 

 ■a puff-ball, filled with dusty spores. "Varying considerably 

 in size, sometimes six inches or more high. 



It occurs at the Cape of Good Hope, where it was originally 

 found by Thunberg, and has lately been gathered by Dr. Wel- 

 witsch on the western coast of Africa. It is probably common 

 in India. It is said to have been used for dressing cancerous 

 sores in Africa, whence it derives its specific name. Our wood- 

 cut represents it in three stages of growth, together with a sec- 

 tion of the plant while the hymenium is still young. 



5. Phallus truncatus (Fig. 5) , n. s. Volva dark brown,pointed 

 below, where it gives off a strongish rootlet, truncate above, 

 not lobed, but with the margin entire ; stem three inches high, 

 half an inch thick in the centre, bright sienna brown inclining 

 to orange, porous, attenuated at the base, capped above with 

 the connate receptacle, above three quarters of an inch high, 

 which is slightly reticulated, broadly truncate at the apex. 

 Sometimes the cap carries up with it a portion of the white 

 inner membrane of the volva. 



Nearly allied to Phallus aurantiacus, Montagne, but differ- 

 ing in the remarkably truncate apex and brown volva. This, 

 with the foregoing species, is figured in General Hardwicke's 

 drawings. 



