9'2 AN HISTORY OF FUN GUSSES.
CVI. PHALLUS vohatus ftipitatus, pileo albo cellulofo, apice pervio.
impudicm. Hud/on Angl. 629. Phallus volvatusßipitatus pileo cellulofo.
Sp. PI. 1648. Sterb.Fwg. T. 30. Fig. A, D, B, C.
Mich. Gen. T. 83. Hall. Hiß. 2248.
S T I N K I N G MOREL L.
T A B . -XCII.
/ T SHE root confifts of one pricipal fibre, the fize of a pack-
-L thread, and about a fpan long ; it is foft, flexible, white,
and emits a few other capillary-fibres from its fides.
When, the plant firft appears above ground, it is of the colour,
ihape, and fize of an hen's egg, as at a. foon after, the outer
Jkin or foft ihell breaks at the fummit, and begins gradually to
Hide down and difcover a thick coat, of ftiff, glewy, pale coloured,
tranfparent jelly, b. in the fpace of an hour this jelly
ilides down to the root, in great wrinkles, and difcovers another
volva, c. which is divided, about half way down, into three thick
white, obtufe lobes, which gradually give way to a conical pileus,
that makes its appearance in the fpace of an hour.
The pileus, d. is at firft thickly covered with a Ihining fubftance,
of a blacki£h green colour, which rubbed between the
fingers, looks like a moift foft powder, and which foon begins
to melt, and fall oif, in a thick, black, turbid, intolerably
foetid gelly ; by this time'the item, g. has acquired its - proper
height, four or five inches ; it is hollow and fmooth within, its
fubftance cellular, light, and fpongy. The pileus alfo, after
the difcharge of the gelly, becomes cellular and white; but
thefe cells are much larger than thofe in the item; the infide
is fmooth, and lightly adheres to the item, at its apex: atlaft
the item becomes loofe in its own proper focket, h. falls
and becomes the food of infed:s.
In the cavity of the item, adhering to the top, and appearing
as if enclofed in a membrane, hangs a piece of pellucid
gelly,- of a itiif, but rather trembling fubftance, as at i.
I wiatched the progrefs of this plant on the 20th of September,
1776, when this defcription was written.
Grows in woods and hedges about Halifax, but rarely.