224 Fulton.— On the Dispersion of Fungi 
In the first group, the simple stalked forms, the deliquescing 
hymenium is exposed on the upper outer surface of the more 
or less conical or subglobose pileus (PI. XV, Figs, i, 2). The 
total height varies from scarcely half an inch to nearly or quite 
a foot. The colour of the receptacle is red or reddish in 45*8 
per cent., white or whitish in 37-5 per cent., and yellowish in 
16*6 per cent. The colour of the external peridium is given in 
1 6 cases : in n (687 per cent.) it is white or whitish, in two 
yellowish white, the other three being reddish, blackish, and 
brownish respectively. The colour of the hymenium is given in 
15 cases, and it is dark in all except Dictyophallus aurantiacus . 
The statement that the hymenium in this species is orange-red 
is not made by Montagne, who first described it, but by Corda 1 . 
It is probably a mistake, for Corda had only a dried specimen, 
and very likely one with a naked pileus for examination ; and 
as the pileus itself is deep orange-red (as in Cynophallus 
caninus , where the hymenial substance is olive-green), it is pro- 
bable that when Corda moistened or scraped a portion of it to 
examine the spores the colouring matter was communicated 
to the substance removed. The odour is given in 12 cases : in 
11 it is more or less foetid, and in one not foetid. 
In the Second group the receptacle has essentially the same 
form as in the first, but there is the addition of a remarkable 
reticulated expansion attached below the pileus, usually cam- 
panulate in form and spreading out around the stem like a frill 
or crinoline. It may be relatively small or close to the stem, 
as in Dictyophora tahitiensis , Schlecht. ( Phallus Daemonum of 
Hooker) and Dictyophora indusiatus (Vent.) ; or it may form a 
large network reaching nearly to the ground, as in Dictyophora 
speciosa , Klotsch, where it has a circumference of about 20 inches 
(PL XV, Fig. 4). Of the 12 species given in Table II, the re- 
ceptacle in ten is white, in one brick red, and in one apparently 
dark. The colour of the external peridium is given in only 
seven cases ; in five it is whitish, and in two brownish. Where 
described the hymenium is dark. In only four species is the 
odour given ; in three it is foetid, and in one it is not foetid. 
1 Icon. Fung., Tom. vi, p. 19. 
