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MU GREVILLE ON THE 
TuBEE brumale, Mich. p. 221. t. 102. 
Lycoperdon tuber, Linn, Sp. PL 1653. — Lightf. Ft 
Scot V. 2. p. 1064 
Lycoperdon gulosortim, Scop, Fl. Cam* v. p. 421, 
Truffles. 
Had. a few inches beneath the surface of the soil, espe» 
cially where of a Hght sandy or gravelly nature. Au- 
tumn. 
Desc. Gregarious, roundish, but sometimes irregular, 
covered with subpyramidal warts, pale, at length near-> 
ly quite black. Within firm, solid, yellowish or pale- 
whitish-brown, and marbled with flexuose lines. 
No fungus is more esteemed for the table than the truffle/ 
and, in order to procure a constant supply, dogs, and even 
pigs, are employed to detect it. Few likewise have been 
longer noticed; Galen, Avicenna, Pliny, Mathiolus, 
and many others, having mentioned it, in various terms of 
approbation. Parkinson, along with a rude figure, gives 
us the following account : " There is yet another kinde of 
mushrome (for so it may most fitly be termed, and not 
rootes, as some would make them to be) that groweth not 
out or above the ground, as all the former sorts doe, but 
within or under the upper crust thereof, called in Greeke 
either v^vov and ah imbribus, or oihoi, ab liumore ; in 
Latine, tuber and tuber a ; in the Arabian tongue, ramcch 
alcliamecl:^ turner and 'kema ; in Italian, tartuffi and tartu- 
fole ; in Spanish, turmas de tier r a ; in French, truffes and 
truffles ; in Germane, hirtz brunst ; in English some call 
them Spanish fusse-balls^ because they are somewhat hke 
our fusse-balls, which are not edible, but containe a smoaky 
dust or pouther in them : but I would rather call them 
Underground Mushrooms^ or Spanish truhbes^ to distin- 
