This impressively large and hefty, solitary fruitbody was growing under pines and scrub oaks on the edge of woods along the south shoulder of Rt. 532 and ~30 yards from NGE. It was deeply inserted into the soil and the stipe bottom was brittle due to being waterlogged. Hence, I might have broken off the bottom of the stipe during the laborious extraction; the soft, membranous volval sack got separated in the process, too, though I was able to recover most of it from the ground. Preserved for RET.