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PHALLUS FOETIDUS.
IMPUDICUS. Linn.
T H E S E are called Stinkhorns in moft country places.
The odour is by feme compared to rotten cheefe, by
others to burning bricks, bones, and the fumes of
hartihorn manufaftories; but we think, with Mr.
Curtis, that the fmell is peculiar to itfelf. We have
found this Fungus in moft woody places where we
h a w been about London, as in Kenlington Gardens,
and alfo about Norwich. Ir feems to be propagated by
the root, which is very fibrous, and generally contains
numerous bulbs, from the fize of a pin s head
to that of a common hen's egg. When approaching
to maturity the greater part of the plant is above
ground. The ñipes is a good example of ludden
growth, as we have known it to rife fix inches in
as many hours. The pileus hangs over the ftipes in
the form of a cap. The top is a little expanded, and
perforated by one or two holes, below which are
cellular reticulations holding the dark foetid jellylike
fubftance, which probably contains the feeds,
and which quickly attra£ts flies and other infeéfs,
who foon devour it without any apparent injury to
themfelves.
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PHALLUS iNODORUs.
CANiNus. Hudf.Fl. Angl.6^jO. Curt. Land.
faß. 4. t. 73.
HIS curious little plant is more rare than the above.
I have feen it at Hampftead in Lord Mansfield's wood,
where Mr. Hunter the gardener finds it annually. I
have alfo found it abundantly in General Money's
plantations near Norwich, where I have obferved the
creeping root more than half a yard long, with the
bulbs, fome juft formed, and others quite arrived at maturity.
Thefe either contain the plant in its more
or lefs perfect ftate, or are found occafionally empty ;
for it often happens, with this as well as the former
fpecies, that the ftipes and all above it are difcharged
by the elaftic force, or collapfing, of the volva or bulb.
The bulb is more ovate than the laft; the ftipes is of
a fimilar conftruition ; the top or head is continued
from the ftipes, having horizontal plaits, and is of a
brick red, covered with an olive-coloured powder,
mixed with a gelatinous inodorous fubftance, and protected
by a thin membrane. The ftipes of this plant will
expand as rapidly as the laft. I have often placed
fpecimens by a window over night while in the egg
form, and they have been fully grown by the morning.
They have never grown with me in the day-time.
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T Y C O P E R D O N BOVISTA. Linn. ed. 13. 1.1. p. 72,6.
GLOBOSUM. With. ed. 3. v. 4. p. 382.
" V V E believe this is fomewhat lefs common than
Lvcoperdon Proteus, with which it has been confounded.
It is moft frequent in its fmall ftate, and may generally
be known by its globofe ftrufture, fmoothilh
furface, and light colour; the whole forming a fimplc
covering to the white cottony fubftance withui;
which fubftance, in an advanced age, becomes a mafs
of finely entangled fibres of a dark colour, holding
an immenfe quantity of extremely fubtile and fine
powder, we prefame the feeds. The covering too
becomes dark, more or lefs of a bi-ownifli Hate colour,
of a filky luftre, and ftiíF fattiny texture. Small
plants in this ftate have been called Lycoperdon ardojmceum
by Bull. 192. and With. 383. I have found this plant
in Kenfington Gardens and other places, from the hze
of a pea to twenty or thirty inches in circumference.
It has the fame number of Ikins as Lycoperdon Proteus,
but the outer one never fo rough; which will help to
diftinguifli it, as well as its being deftitute of the
cellular part at the bafe. A fmall figure of this is
called Lycoperdon giganteum by Batfch, p. 29./. 165.
T A B . CCCXXXII,
L Y C O P E R D O N PROTEUS.
A NAME quite applicable to this fpecies. Its many
ihapes are hardly to be defcribed. It is fometimes
globofe, like the laft, and refembles it fo much that
they have been generally confounded. However, the
outer fkin in the prefent is generally rougher, and
commonly forms woolly Jlelke, more or lefs regular,
whence Bulliard's Lycoperdon Cislatum-, his Lycoperdon
Bovijla, tab. 447, being the fame, with the Jiella ^•^•aflled
or worn off, and its general form rounder, refembling
the true Lycoperdon Bovifla. The lower part of this plant
conftitutes its moft diitinguiflring characSter, being
always cellular, which is not the cafe with the other,
though this ftru6lure is not to be feen in its younger
ftate. Its feldom being merely globular ill help to
diftinguifli it. It is fometimes bottle-fliaped, whence
Bulliard's Lycoperdon utriforme, pi. 450. It is alfo occafionally
fliaped like a pear or an onion, whence
Lycoperdon pyriforme and Lycoperdon cepa-forme of
the fame author. We have alfo feen it branching
and inofculating. The cellular part often grows
out into a long JJipes, whence Bulliard's Lycoperdon