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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Clavaria. 
devoured by flies, particularly by the large blue flesh fly, ( Musca vomi-* 
toria. E.) In its egg-state it is about the size of a small pullet’s egg, and 
remains many days before it bursts through its wrapper ; but this being 
done, the stem pushes up with amazing rapidity, attaining the height of 
four or five inches in a few hours. The offensive green matter contains 
the seeds, which may be seen by the assistance of a good microscope. 
Such as have courage to smell this mucus closely, will find it much less 
disagreeable than at a distance; for it then seems to have a slight pun¬ 
gency, like that of volatile salts. Its odour soon pervades a whole house. 
The wrapper is lined with a clear jelly like the white of an egg, but 
stiffer; within this is found the green matter, and within that the young 
plant. When it shoots up, the wrapper and the clear jelly remain at the 
root: the stem is hollow; within porous and spongy like pith. 
(Stinkhorn. Stinking Morel. P. feetidus. Sowerby. FI. Lond. N. E. 
Purt. Hook. P. impudicus. Linn. Bull. Lightf. With, to Ed. 7. E.) 
Very common in wet summers in hedge banks and thickets. (Preferring 
a loose sandy soil. Purt. E.) In sandy situations frequent near Bungay. 
Mr. Woodward. (By the shores of the Firth of Forth, and at Carubber 
Bank. Sibbald. E.) July—Sept. 
Ph. (inodo'rus. E.) (Schaeff.) Pileus wrinkled, red, covered with a 
greenish matter; conical, closed at the end: stem yellow, taper¬ 
ing at the bottom. 
Curt. 235— ( Sowerby 330. E.)— Schaeff. 330, too highly coloured — Battar. 
40. F. 
Egg the size of a nutmeg. Stem hollow, as thick as a swan’s quill, near 
three inches high, pale orange, semi-transparent. Pileus conical, not 
larger than the stem, half an inch high, closed at the apex : covered with 
a thin coat of green scentless mucus, which being removed, it appears red 
and wrinkled. Its growth is rapid like that of Ph. impudicus. Curtis. 
Schaeffer's figure not an exact resemblance of it as found in England. Mr. 
Woodward. 
(Sowerby observes that the bulbs of the root are found occasionally empty ; 
it often happening with this, as the former species, that the stipes 
and all above it are discharged by the elastic force, or collapsing, of the 
volva or bulb. Specimens placed by a window over night, while in the 
egg form, have been found fully grown in the morning. They are sup¬ 
posed not to gro w in the day-time. E.) 
This is a rare plant. First found in woods and shady places near Shrews¬ 
bury. Ehret. in FI. Ang. 
(Scentless Morel. P. caninus. Huds. With, to Ed. 7. FI. Lond. N. E. 
Phallus inodorus. Sowerby, who gathered it in Lord Mansfield’s woods 
at Hampstead, where it appears annually ; also in General Money’s plan¬ 
tations near Norwich. E.) July—Sept. 
CLAVA'RIA.* Uniform: upright, club-shaped : seeds emitted 
from every part of its surface. 
(1) Stem with a head. 
Cn. gy'rans. (Batsch.) Stem hair-like: head club-like, terminating, 
longish, tapering at each end. Relhan n. 1102. 
* (From clams, a club or mace; in allusion to its general appearance. E.) 
