Illustrations: Geastrum triplex—Hvass 307; LH 221; NB 1551. Scleroderma citrinum—Hvass 320; LH 223; NB 1555; WD 1113.
Plate 64. Earth-balls and Earth-stars
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Stinkhorns
Phallus impudicus Persoon Common stinkhorn
Fruit-body: Egg: 30-60 mm in diameter—then Cap: 25-40 mm and Stem: width 18-25 mm; length 100-150 mm.
Description:
Fruit-body: commencing as a white, silky egg-like structure full of jelly in which is embedded a conical cap attached only at its apex to a cylindrical white, spongy, hollow stem.
Cap: covered in a slimy mass of dark olive-coloured spores at maturity.