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Exs. — Fuckel, Fung. Rhen. 1249. 
Bristol ! Rudloe, Wilts ! — France. 
Var. Broomeianus, Berk. 
Gregarious, globose or irregular, at first ochraceous, then 
reddish ferruginous, minutely downy ; walls of the cells dirty- 
white or yellowish ; pulp black; spores elliptic-oblong, smooth, 
clear brown, 9-10 x 4-5 /*. 
Melcmogaster Broomeianus , Berk., Ann. Nat. Hist, xiii, 
352 ; Tul., Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 2, t. xix, 377, t. xvii, f. 23 ; Sacc., 
Syll. vii, p. 165. 
Melanogaster variegatus , var. Broomeianus , Berk., Outl. 
293 ; Tub, Fung. Hypog. 93, t. xi, f. iv-vi b ; Cke., Hdbk. n. 1047. 
Ttiber moschatum , Sow., Eng. Fung. t. 426. 
Exs. — Berk., Brit. Fung. 285. 
Under beech trees, Lombardy poplars, etc. Rudloe ! Bury 
St. Edmund’s ! Clifton ! 
Differs from the type which has not been collected in 
Britain, in never having the walls of the cells bright yellow or 
orange. 
Sold in the market at Bath under the name of Red 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 exposed, 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 becoming red when dry, sometimes un- 
changeable ; at first white within, then very pale yellow, at 
length fuliginous. (M. J. B., 1. c.) 
Melanogaster ambiguiis, Tub (Fig. 5). Globose or ellip- 
soid, very foetid, nearly even, pale olive, becoming brownish 
when exposed to the air, septa white, spores obovate or ellip- 
tical, apex variable, acute, or obtuse and papillate, smooth, 
brown, 13-15 x 7-8 /x. 
Melanogaster ambiguus , Tub, Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, t. 
