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black, and ftudded with pyramidical or poly- 

 hedrons tubercles ; the internal fubftance folid 

 and callous, of a dirty-white or pale-brown 

 color, grain'd like a nutmeg with Terpentine 

 lines ; in which, according to Micbeli, are im^ 

 bedded minute oval capfules, containing each 

 from two to four round warted feeds. 



The Truffles of Great Britain feldom exceed 

 three or four ounces in weight; but in Ital}\ 

 and fome other parts of the continent, they are 

 faid to have been found of the enormous fize 

 of eight and even fourteen pounds. 



They are received at our tables, either frefh and 

 roafted like potatoes, or dry'd and fliced into 

 ragouts. 



They have a volatile and fomewhat urinous fmell, 

 and are reputed to be aphrodiftacal. 



Dogs are with much pains taught to hunt for them 

 by the fcent, and to fcratch up the ground 

 under which they lie. 



** Puherulcnta, radlcata^ fupra terrnm. 

 hovifta 2, L. fubrotundum, lacerato-dehifcens. Sp. pi. i6^2* 

 (Michel, gen. t. 97. Jig. omnes. Vaill. paris. 

 t. iz. Jig. 15, 16. y ial>. 16. Jig. 4, 5, 6, 8. 

 Schceffer. tab. 184 — 187. ^ 189 — 191. ^ 294, 

 295. omnes hon^e cum mult is varietatibus.) 

 Common Puff-ball. Anglis, 



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