592 238. Sclerot. 10. SARCOTHECEiE. Pl.cell.aph. 
9. Sclerotium complanatum. Flattened corn-mould. 
Thallus nearly orbicular, compressed, smooth, pale, 
slightly stemmed. 
Sclerotium complanatum, Tode MecJclen. 5. 
On rotten dung and straw ; winter. 
B. Tuberide^;. Thallus solid, globular or irregular, 
inside cellular or veiny; sporidia scattered in the cells. 
IV. 239. TUBER. Matthioli. Truffle . 
Thallus globular, irregular, bark thick, cracked, inside 
veiny ; sporidia nearly globular, pedicelled, affixed to the 
veins. — Subterraneous. 
a. Root 0, grows deep in the ground . 
1. Tuler cilarium. Food truffle. 
Thallus nearly globular, outside black, warty; warts 
large, blunt, angular. 
Tubera, 
Lycoperdon Tuber, Lin . S. P. 1653. 
Lycoperdon gulosorum, Scopoli Cam. 2,491. 
Tuber gulosorum, Wigg Holsat. 109. 
Tuber cibarium, Sibthorp Oxon. 398. 
Truffs. Truffles. 
Subterraneous. 
Flavour very grateful in made-dishes ; procured by ob- 
serving where hogs wish to turn up the ground, and there 
digging, or by having spaniels trained to point at them. 
2. Tuber moschatum. Musk truffle. 
Thallus roundish, smooth, black inside and out; flesh 
soft becoming wrinkled; when fresh smelling like musk. 
Tuber moschatum, Bulliard Champ. 79; Sowerby Fungi, 426. 
Subterraneous. 
Used as the former. 
b. Root fibrous , grows near the surface. Tartufa. 
3. Tuber album. White truffle. 
Thallus smooth, inside and outside white, afterwards 
dull-red with red lines. 
Tuber album, Bulliard Champ. 30; Sowerby Fungi, 320. 
Lycoperdon gibbosum, Dickson Crypt. 2, 26. 
White truffle. 
Under ground, near the surface. 
Inodorous, becoming yellow, and wrinkly when dry.— 
Used for sauce, but inferior to the common. 
