premise: the foul smell of the stinkhorn attracts insects that carry the spores away on their feet
hypothesis: stinkhorn is best characterized as a kind or type of ergot (or Claviceps purpurea), defined as 'a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant; source of medicinally important alkaloids and of lysergic acid' .