they firftfpringup,bnt after two or three dayes the white skinne or coate breaketh above and fheweth yellow, 
like the yolke of an egge,which then groweth greater,and into the forme of a Mulhrome (the white skinne fal¬ 
ling away by little ami little)being ray fed fomewhat higher in the middle, and of fo gold a yellow colour, that it 
leemeth deeper coloured then the faffron it felfe, and leffe yellow underneath, with as many lines as in other 
Mn(hromes,the (ialkc likewile is yellow and an inch thicke.when it groweth old it breakf th into three or fnnrc 
parts,and loofeth the frefh colour above,becomming more pale,and underneath almoft white: thefe being • 
fed and ferved as a difh to the table where Clufini was, leemcdunto him to be coloured with Saffron. 
ao. There is fome that are called Torcim or Suilli, Swines Mufhromes, which are (omewnat pointed, and oS 
a fmokic colour,(potted with white fpots,and underneath with blackifli lines,the upper part in fome will be red 
bazCafa/pinm faith that thofe which werecalled/»iffior/wn'»» with them, were of a brownilh yellow above, 
and of an afh colour underneath. 
21. Then are there fuch which thofe of Naples call ('tmociclk ,as Baptifia Porta faith, and peradventure may be 
thofe that Cafalpinm faith were called Scarogia,growing in medowes, the head being broad, and the ftalke very 
long and of divers colours,this with C/ufim is his eighteenth. 
2 2, Another fort is called Querdnut dipfacoidesby Columxa. The head hereof is white, and like unto the ordi¬ 
nary fort for forme,but that the toppeis browne,and groweth to be (potted, but the chieleft matter of difference 
is in the ftalke, which hath about the middle of it,or higher.a cettaine hollow difh, like as the Tcafel! feemeth to 
have,being rough and browne, about the brimmes: the lower part of the ftalke is as it were knobbed.and black- 
ifh next to the ground, with fome hairy fibres thereat it groweth among Oakes, this may be called theTeafel! 
orBafon Mufhrome. 
a;. There is another that groweth on the Larche tree,betides the Agaricke, which is of an huge fife, contai-' 
ning thirty pound in weight as Matthiolm laith,and is of a gold yellow colour, fomewhat torne about the edges, 
and is mold pleafant. 
24. Then is there another called acta or pipcritii, and peradventure may be that which Cordut on Diofcoride; 
rallcth Piperij fapore ,being a white Mufhrome,and tailing fliarpe and hot like prpper. 
25. There is another fort which Cafalpimu faith the vulgar people called Trr.nuli , being very (mail ofan afh 
colour,and very fweetc in fent. 
25 . Another is branched and is the nineteenth with Clufim, being in fome ydIow,in others reddifh, and mo¬ 
thers of a pale white.which they call the Goates bcarde.and adde their colour,the moll confpicuous is that which 
is yellow and fpotced with white fpots ,Clufuu faith that thefe are fome what like thofe Mulhrames that Baytijfa 
Porta faith, were brought from mount Gargmwt, like young Afparagus buds, and then breaking out into bran¬ 
ches. 
27. There are two other forts called D igitattu major & minor, and Digit t Uibj thz Italians being of a large fife,' 
and parted as it were into long white fingers,one whereof will fuifice a man at a meale. 
28. Then is there a monftrous great kinde growing in Hungary, being of two foote in breadth, having many 
large torne leaves like feales lying upon it,and fafbioned like an Oaken leafe, fome of them of a dai ke red and 
fome ofa blackifh white colour,with many blacke fpots in the white, the ftalke is halfe a foote highland an hand- 
bredth and a halfe in thickencffe.C/Kfiw thinketh this to be that mulhrome which Taptifia Porta faith the 'Nja- 
po/itanes call Gallinacia ,being of fo large a file that it doth weigh fourelcore pound, and that one will latisfie a 
f rear family.ffardwiw referred) it to the Fmgtu Lcporimu of ClufKu, which ishis fourteenth, C/ufius faith hee 
at!] feene in Hungary thofe that have beene fo great, that one might well fuifice foure men at a meale 
2 9 - There is alfo one that is very fmall and a little long, formed like unto a tooth, and therefore called Den. 
tatter, 
20. There is yet another kinde of mufhrome (for fo it may moft fitly be termed, and not rootes.as feme would 
make them to be) that groweth not out or above the ground,as all the former forts doe, but within or under the 
upper cruft thcreof,callcd in Grcekc either uiJVoy and UPvaab imbribue, or oiJ'raab bttmore , in Latine Taker and 
T‘tbtra {or Tubera terra to diftinguifh it from Tuber arbor) in the Arabian tongue Ramecb Alchamech, Turner & 
Ktma, in I taliuu Tartuffi and Tartufole , in Spanifi Tmmat de tierrajn French Truffei and Trufflet, in the Germane 
VHlHiU 2 tongus 
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