might be of different G. Bose, 
has mentioned one from Caro- 
lina, which he has hardly de- 
scribed, it is white, inodorous, 
but of exquisite taste, and may 
be called T. caroliniana . 
His N. G. Upcrhiza , omit- 
ted by all our Botanists! is 
figured and described in the N. 
Diet, Hist. Nat. It resembles 
a Truffle but grows above 
ground, and has the roots 
creeping on the surface, 
whence the name. 
The roots of the following 
plants are called Tuckahos in 
the Southern States. 
Convolvules panduratus , C 
battatas and C. macrorhiza 
Erythrina herbacea . 
Jlpios tuberosa. 
Several Sp. of Sagittaria 
and Helianthus . 
Eaton has only £ Scleroti- 
ums, Schweinitz has £2, they 
are all Tuckahos, although not 
eatable; but the new Tuckahos 
are large, edible, subterrane- 
an Fungi. See my Med. Flo 
vol ii. N. G. Tucahus- If this 
name is too barbarous, Gem- 
mularia or Hugos aria , may be 
substituted. I shall here de- 
scribed of them. 
N* G. Tucahus or Gemmula- 
no, Raf. Subterranean Fun- 
gus, without roots, shape, 
multiform or amorphous, for- 
ming a solid mass, covered by 
an epidermis with wrinkles or 
chinks, on which sprout gem- 
mules reproducing the plant. 
1 Sp. T. or 6?. rugosa , Raf 
Oblong mass, inside white, so- 
lid, with chinks, outside brown 
rugose by anastomoted promi- 
nent nerves. 
Synon. Lycoperdoides of 
Clayton according to Mac- 
bride, in Am. M. Mag. N. Y. 
No. 3, p. 149, who gave along 
account of it. He says, that 
it grows from S. Carolina to 
Maryland, in all kinds of 
ground except Swamps; in 
rich grounds it grows from 15 
to 40 lbs weight. When young 
it is attached to the roots of 
Oaks and Hickories, but when 
old is quite free. The inside 
appears a mass of modified 
gluten, without starch nor 
fibrine! The Indians eat it, but 
it lias no smell and little taste. 
I saw' it in 1817 at Dr Mit- 
cliill’s. 
% Sp. T. or G. leviuscula 
Raf. oblong knobby mass, 
inside white fungose with 
chinks, outside fulvous smooth. 
In Carolina, 6 to 1£ inches 
long, epiderm thin, gemmules 
small rounded articulated in 
the hollows. Edible good, in- 
odorous, seen alive. 
3. Sp. T. or G. rimosa Raf. 
Mass oblong cuneatc one end 
attenuated, inside white solid 
without chinks, outside with 
th i*c k 1 o n gitu d inal flexuose 
wrinkles arid furrows. In 
Virginia and N. Carol, lately 
communicated by Dr Mease, 
who received it from Mr Gar- 
net of Jerusalem. First men- 
tioned as a nameless Truffle 
by Dr Mitchell Med. Repos. 
18 1 £. It grows in rich swamps, 
has no smell nor taste, but is 
edible, when fresh a little acrid 
and astringent, used by Indians 
for diarrhea. The interna! 
substance has a flexuose break- 
age, not angular as in the 
