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Pl.celLaph. 12. LYTOTHECE/E. 312. Batarrea. 675
Conjoined to the stem, tuberculate;
involucnim double Ithyphallus. 313.
Cap cellular, networklike, bare;
involucrum double Phallus. 314.
I. 312. BATARREA. Persoon. Balarrea.
Thallus stipitate ; volva triple, filled with mucilage ; stem
smooth ; cap hemispherical, bellshape, with sporiferous
flocks under the crown.
Batarrea phalloides. Phalluslike batarrea.
Thallus brown.
Lycoperdon phalloides, Dickson Crypt. 1,24; Sowerhy Fungi, 390.
Batarrea phalloides, Persoon Syn, 129.
On sandy banks.
Stem at first short, then springing up on a sudden to a
foot high.
II. 313. ITHYPHALLUS. Dog's-acorn.
Thallus stipitate; volva double, the outer large; stem
networked; cap ovate, tubercled, confluent into the stem
indusium 0.
Ithyphallus iJiodorus. Scentless dog' s-acorn.
Stem cellular; cap ovate, tip blunt, not perforated; edge
undivided.
Phallus caninus, Curt. Lonil. 235 ;
Phallus inodorus, Suieerby Fungi, 330.
On rotten wood ; autumn.
Persoon Syn, 245.
III. 314. PHALLUS. Micheli. AcotJi-stool.
Thallus stipitate; volva double, the outer large; steTti
networked; cap ovate, not cut, free from the stem, networked
; indusium 0.
1. Phallus impudicus. Immodest acorn-stool.
Stem pitted obliquely ; cap cellular, perforated at top.
Fiingus phalloides, Raii Syn. 12,8.
Phallus impudicus, Lin. S. P. 1648; Bolt. Fung. 92.
Phallus foetidus, Sowerhy Fungi, 242.
Slink-horns.
In shady woods ; autumn.
Volva egglike ; cap dissolves into a very foetid slime,
containing the sporse, greedily devoured by flesh-flies.
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