HTPOG^I. 



MELANOGASTER, Corda. 



Peridium adhering to creeping 

 branched libres which traverse its 

 surface, without any proper or dis- 

 tinct base ; cells at first filled with 

 pulp ; spores smooth, mostly dark. 

 — Corda. Sturm, iii.p.i. Ic. Fung. 

 V. p. 23. Tul. Hyp. p. 92. Berk. 

 Outl. p. 223. {Fig. 103.) 



Fig. 103. 



1047. Melanogaster variegatus. Tul. " Red Truffle." 



At first ochraceous, then reddish-ferruginous, minutely downy ; 

 walls of the cells dirty white, yellowish or orange ; pulp black ; 

 spores minute. — Tul. F. Hyp. t. ii. /. 4, t. xii.f. 6. Bull. t. 479. 

 Berk. Outl.p. 293. Vitt. Tub. t.m.f.A. Corda. Ic.Yi.t.dJ.dl. 



var. Broomeianus. Veins pale, sometimes becoming red when 

 dry, sometimes unchangeable. M. Broomeianus, B. Ann. N.H. 

 710.301. Tuber 7noschatum, Sow. L 426. Berk. exs. no. 285. Tul. 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. xix. 1. 17, f. 23. Corda. vi./. 90. 



Under beech trees, Lombardy poplars, &c. South West of 

 England. 



Sold in the market at Bafh under the name of the Eed Truffle, and eaten 

 there in preference to the Common Truffle. In tufts of five or six together, 

 and several of such tufts under each tree, half of them being in general ex- 

 posed, and half beneath the soil ; when fresh it is minutely tomentose, of a 

 reddish ochre, which becomes less bright when handled or badly dried ; the 

 veins bright yellow in the typical form, pale in the variety, sometimes be- 

 coming red when dry, sometimes unchanj^eable ; at first white within, then 

 very pale yellow, at length fuliginous. The spores are elliptic and minute, 

 without any papillae, they contain one or two globose nuclei ; when ripe 

 spherical bodies of the size of the nuclei are often mixed with the spores. — 

 M.J.B. Spores -0064 mm. long, '004 mm. broad ('00025 X '00015 in.). 



1048. Melanogaster ambiguus. 



gaster." 



Tul. " Stinking Melano- 



Very foetid, globose, dirty olive, nearly even ; walls of cells 

 ■white, reddish when exposed to. the air ; pulp black ; spores large, 

 obovate. TuLHijp.t.2,f.h,t.l2,f.h. Berk. Ann. N. Hist. no. 302. 

 Berk. Outl. p. 223. Corda. Ic. vi. t.d,f. 88. Octaviana ambigua^ 



