Truffle-Hunting. 399 



and larger works : — 1. Mentzelius, Pugillus variorum Plantarum. 

 2. Sur les Triiffcs, et Observations sur la Vegetation dcs Triiffes, 

 par M. Geoffroi le jeune, in Histoire et Memoires de V Academic 

 Royale dcs Sciences^ annee 1711 ; Amsterdam, 1715. 3. Dr. 

 Bruckman, Spec, hotan. exliihens Fungos sidjterraneos^ vidgo Tuhera 

 Terrcc dictos ; 4to, 1729. 4. MicheW, Nova Pla7itarwnGe7ierafSj-c.f 

 Florent.^ gen. 221. tab. 102. 5. Bradley, Physical Observations 

 on Gardening. The same in French, Noitvelles Observations 

 physiques et pratiques sur le Jardinage et V Art de planter, tom. 

 ii. p. 208., et tom. iii. p. 263., translated from the English. 

 6. Gleditsch, Methodus Fimgorum, exhibens Genera, Species, Vari- 

 etates cum, Charactere, Differentia specifica, Syno?iimis, Solo, Loco, 

 et Observationibtis, Berol. 1753, p. 157. n. 6. 7. V. Justi, On 

 the Cidtivation of Truffles, in his economical writings, 1st vol., 

 Berlin and Leipsig, p. 210. 8. Jbettrcs sur les Trnffes du 

 Piedmont, par le Comte de Borch, a Milan, 1780, 1789. 9. 

 Linnaeus's complete Systcma Plantarum, after the 14th Latin 

 edition, &c., 13th part, 1st volume of the cryptogamic plants, 

 Nurnb- 1786. 10. Kerner, The poisonous and edible Fungi 

 which grow wild, as well in the Duchy of IViirtemberg, as in the 

 rest of Germany, 1786, p. ^5. 11. Batsch, Elenchus Fungorum, 

 accedunt Iconics Fungorum nonmdlorum Agri Fenensis ab Auctore 

 depictcE, ceri incisce, et vivis colorihus fucatce ; iii. partes (to 1 789, 

 with 232 figures, a German and also a Latin text). 1 2. Bulliard, 

 Histoire des Champignons de France, ou Traite elementaire renfer- 

 mant dans une Ordre methodique les Descriptions et les Figures des 

 Champignons qui croissent naturellement en France; Paris, 1791 ; 

 avec, 177 estampes. 13. Lippold and Funke's Lexicon of Nature 

 and Art, 3d part, 1804, under the article Truffle. 



In some of these works no mention is made of truffle- 

 searching; in others, the subject is dismissed in a few words. 

 From them, therefore, the reader can expect to glean but little 

 on the subject upon which we are now about to treat. 



II. Truffle-Hunting, oh Truffle Search, in particular. 



§ 10. General Pemarks on TriiffUc-Hunting, or Tniffle Search. — 

 The act which has for its object the getting possession of wild, 

 useful, or injurious animals, by searching for them according to 

 art, and catching or killing them with an apparatus to that 

 effect, and for the most part by the assistance of domestic 

 animals trained for the purpose, is commonly called hunting. 

 To the obtaining of other natural productions from other 

 natural kingdoms, unless we speak figuratively, we cannot 

 apply the term " hunting," although at the same time many 

 individual marks of the idea may occur. The searching for 

 and obtaining of truffles, which are a product of the vegetable 

 kingdom, cannot therefore be properly called truffle-hunting, 



