CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Phallus. 
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(PHAL'LUS. # Stem issuing from a wrapper: pileus smooth 
on the under, cellular on the upper surface : 
the cells filled with sporuliferous slime. E.) 
Ph. ESCULEn'tus. Pileus egg-shaped; full of cells: stem naked, 
wrinkled. 
(Grev. Scot. Crypt. 68. E.)— Bull. 218, B. D.—(Sowerby 51. E.)— Scliceff'. 
199,298, 299, 300— Bolt. 91— -FI. Dan. 53— Sterb. 10— Mich. 8.5. 1 and 
2; 84. 1, 2, and 3—Gled. 2. Phallus f. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7—Gars. 173— 
Clus. 264. 1— Lob. ic. ii. 274— Dod. 481. 1— Ger. Em. 1583. 1— J. B. iii. 
836. 2—Park. 1317. 1— Tourn. 329. A.—Battar. 2. F. 
Has an agreeable smell. Stem hollow, naked, white, one to two inches 
high, half to one inch diameter. Pileus buffy or brownish, entirely united 
to the stem, from the size of a pigeon's to that of a swan's egg; cells very 
large, angular like a honeycomb. Colour pale yellow, or buff, grows to 
a large size. Mr. Woodward. ( Stem often three to five inches high. 
Pileus sometimes irregular in form, and of a smoky grey, as in some of 
Sowerby's figures. E.) 
(Morel or Morelle. P. esculentus. Linn. Schseff. Huds. Bull. Bolt. 
Relh. Helvetia esculenta. Sowerby. Morchella esculenta. Pers. Hook. 
Grev. E.) Woods and hedges in loamy soil, not unfrequent. (By the 
terrace walk at the Larches. E.) May.f 
Var. 2. Small, black. 
Bull. 218. E. F. 
(Nearly allied to the preceding species, but differing, as Greville remarks, 
“ in the spreading base of the pileus, which is not adnate with the stipes 
at its margin, as in M. esculenta ; but half an inch above it.” 
Helvetia hybrida. Sowerby 238. Morchella hybrida. Grev. Scot. Crypt. 89. 
E.) On sandy heaths, Norfolk. Mr. Woodward. 
Ph. (fce'tidus. E.) Pileus cellular above, smooth underneath, not united 
to the stem: stem perforating the pileus, and open at the end. 
Bull. 182— Curt. 199— (Sowerby 329. E.)— Schcejf. 198, 197, 196—Bolt. 
92— Mich. 83— Gled. 2. Phallus f. 3— FI. Dan. 175 —Ray cat. at p. 122. 
Ed. ii.— Battar. 2. A, B, C, D. — Sterb. 30. B, C. at p. 276— Clus. ii. 295 
—Dod. 483 —Lob. ic. ii. 275— Ger. Em. 1583. 2—Park. 1322. 13— J. B. 
iii. 845. 1 —Sterb. 30, B, F, G, at p. 276—Barr. 1258 —J. B. iii. 843. 3 
—Sterb. 30. A, D—Pet. fit. 17. 13. 14— Clus. ii. 286. 2— J. B. iii. 845. 2. 
— Sterb. 30. I, H, at p. 27 6, and Barr. 1264, exhibit no appearance of a 
pileus open at the end, though probably the same plant. 
Though this plant be so intolerably foetid that it is much oftener smelt than 
seen, in its egg state it has no offensive smell. The odour resides in 
the green matter which fills the cells of the pileus, and is very soon 
* (As typical of the (puXXvg , an object of idolatrous worship at the Pagan festival of 
the Dionysia. E.) 
+ (The Morel has been very long considered a delicacy in soups, ragouts, and stews, 
or sometimes on the Continent, by itself, stuffed. For these purposes it is usually pre¬ 
served dry. In Germany Morels are so marketable that, it is said, the country people 
having observed that they sprung up most abundantly in spots where wood had been 
charred, ventured to set fire to the forests, purposely to increase their propagation, till 
such practices were repressed by heavy penalties. E.) 
