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1178. Dictyophora multicolor. Berk. Br. Linn. Trans. 
Ser. 2, Vol. n., t. xiv., f. 16. Sacc. Syll. vii., No. 11. 
About 7 in. high ; stem cream-coloured, attenuated at the base; 
indusium net-like, cylindrical, but little wider than the stem, bright 
lemon-colour, depending to the middle of the stem, reticulations 
large ; pileus adnate to the apex of the stem, without a distinct 
collar, conical (2 in. high, l£ in. diam. at base), orange, externally 
minutely reticulated. Foetid. 
On the ground. N.S. Wales. Queensland. 
1179. Dictyophora merulina. Berk. Tntell. Obs. ix., 404. 
Sacc. Syll. vii., 13. 
Gregarious; pileus campanulate, conical, rugulose, ochraceous, 
covered with a foetid brown sporiferons mass, apex pierced and 
dentate ; stem distinct, rather attenuated, lacunose and spongy, 
elastic, hollow, white ; veil net-like, indusiate, depending for a 
third of the stem, white, meshes subhexagonal, irregular, lamel- 
late ; outer volva spherical, dirty white or brownish, interior tre- 
melloid, rarely connate with the outer ; spores 5 x 2 g. 
On the ground. Queensland. (Fig. 97). 
Genus 2. ITHYPHALIUS. Fr. Sys. Myc. n. 
Receptacle consisting of a hollow stem and a pileus externally 
reticulated, or tuberculately rugulose ; stem without indusium= 
Phallus, Linn., p.p. 
a. Reticulati. Pileus externally reticulate. 
1180. Ithyphallus impudicus. Linn. Fr. Sys. Myc. ii., 
283. Sacc. Syll. 18. 
Attaining 30 cm. high ; volva white ; stem (3 c.m. diam.) at- 
tenuated above and below, white, walls composed of 3-4 strata of 
cells ; pileus conical-campanulate (5 X 3-4 c.m.), joined to the 
apex of the stem by a ring, white, externally coarsely reticulate ; 
gelatinous mass of spores dark olive. 
On the ground. Queensland. 
1181. Ithyphallus quaclricolor. B. Sacc. Syll. vii., 20. 
=Phallus quadricolor., Berk. <j- Br. Linn. Trans. Ser. 2, 
Vol. ii., p. 66, t. xiv., 18. 
About 4^ in. high ; stem cylindrical, nearly equal (2§ in. long 
to base of pileus), lemon-colour, volva white, mycelium purple; 
pileus conical (2 in. long), very wide at the base, orange -coloured, 
brown when dry, coarsely reticulated ; spores ovate, pale brown. 
On the ground. Queensland. 
1182. Ithyphallus calyptratus. B. Sacc. Syll. vii., 21.= 
Phallus calyptratus., Berk. Br. Linn. Trans. Ser. 2, Vol. 
ii., t. xiv.,/ 17. 
Scarcely 2 in. high ; stem slightly attenuated upwards (1J in. 
l° n g, a in. thick), pallid; pileus somewhat hemispherical, depressed 
