each end. This plant is also known as
Dictyophora Ravenelii, Burt.

[Illustration: Figure 448.--Phallus Ravenelii. Two-thirds natural size.]

[Illustration: Figure 449.--Phallus Ravenelii. Two-thirds natural size,
showing the egg stage.]

_Lysurus borealis. Burt._

[Illustration: Figure 450.--Lysurus borealis.]

The receptacle is borne on a stalk, hollow, attenuated toward the base,
divided above into arms, which do not join at their apices, and which
bear the spore mass in their inner surfaces and sides, inclosing the
spore mass when young, but later diverging.

The stem of the phalloid is white, hollow, attenuated downward; the arms
are narrow, lance-shaped, with pale flesh-colored backs, traversed their
entire length by a shallow furrow.

The egg in the center is about ready to break the volva and develop to a
full grown plant. The plants in Figure 450 were found near Akron, Ohio,
and photographed by G. D. Smith.

_Mutinus. Fr._

The gleba is borne directly on the upper portion of the stem, which is
hollow and composed of a single layer of tissue; and the plant has no
separate pileus, by which characteristic the genus differs from
Phallus.

_Mutinus caninus. Fr._

[Illustration: Figure 451.--Mutinus caninus.]

The gleba-bearing portion is short, red or flesh-colored, subacute,
wrinkled, the cap or gleba forming the spore-bearing mass which is
usually conical, sometimes oblong or ovoid, covering one-fourth to
one-sixth the total length of the stem.

The stem is elongated, spindle-shaped, hollow, cylindrical, cellular,
white, sometimes rosy. The spores are elliptical, involved in a green
mucus, 6x4u. The plant comes from an egg, which is about the size of a
quail's egg. You can find them in the ground if you will mark the place
where you have seen them growing. They are found in gardens and in old
woods and thickets. I have found this species in several localities
about Chillicothe, but always in damp thickets. Mr. Lloyd thought this
more nearly resembled the European species than any he had seen in this
country. Found in July, August, and September.

_Mutinus elegans. Montagne._

[Illustration: _Photo by C. G. Lloyd._

Plate LVI. Figure 452.--Mutinus elegans.

Natural size, showing an egg and a section of an egg.]

[Illustration: Figure 453.--Mutinus elegans. One-third natural size,
showing volva, white receptacle and red cap.]

The pileus is acuminate, perforated at apex. The stem is