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CRYPTQGAMIA. FUNGI. Tuber. 
(Bull. 356— Sowerby 309. E.) —Mich. 102, Tuber—Gled. 5. 10, and 6. 7 
— Tourn. 333— Matth. 544— Sterb. 32, the uppermost A. — Lonic. ii. 15 
— J. B. iii. 849— Dod. 486. 2— Lob. ic. ii. Tubera — Ger. Em. 1583. 8— 
Park. 1319. 30.— Sterb. 32, the middlemost A. — Ger. 1385. 3. 
Globular, of the size of a large plum, whitish, rough with elevated dots, 
in the centre containing a brown powder like that of Lycoperdon bovista, 
but in small quantity, opening with a fissure. Linn. Suec. n. 1281.. It is 
found under the surface of the earth, at the depth of four or five inches. 
It has no proper root. Its colour dark, approaching to blackness. White 
within when young, but when old black with whitish veins. Bulliard. 
(Truffles. Eycoperdon Tuber. Lightf. E.) Under ground in high woods 
and pastures. On the downs of Wiltshire, Hampshire, and Kent, (also 
in Scotland. E.) Sept—May.* 
T. ai/bum. (Bull.) Tawny white, without a root, but rooted by its 
base: variously shaped, roundish, convex, hunched, somewhat 
wrinkled, solid, whitish. Dickson ii. 2 6. 
Bull. 404—( Sowerby 310. E.) 
Two to three inches long, and about two-thirds as much in width. A sec¬ 
tion of its inside appears very like a piece of rhubarb. Bull. Half of it 
sunk beneath the surface of the ground. Somewhat yellowish when dry. 
Nearly allied to Lycoperdon Tuber. Dickson. 
(White Truffle. Lycoperdon gibbosum. Dickson. Woods. Gathered by 
Lady Smythe, near Acton Burnell. Mr. Stackhouse. E.)t 
Var. 2. Uniform, tan leather colour within. 
About a fourth part buried; near two inches diameter ; surface knobby and 
pitted ; villose in the cavities; substance uniform, like cork, colour not 
variegated. The whole mass perforated by stems of grass, so that it 
must have been above ground in a soft state. I suspect it to be a dis¬ 
tinct species. 
Under a Spanish chesnut-tree, in Edgbaston park. Aug. 
T. cervi'num. Globular, rather solid, rent; powdery in the centre; 
without a root. 
(Sowerby 269. E.)— Mich. 99. 4— Gled. 5. f. 11— Sterb. 32, the uppermost 
B .— Gars. 115. A. — Lob. ic. ii. 2T6, Tubera, cervina — J. B. iii. 851 — 
Park. 1319, the two Jigures on the right hand — Sterb. 32, the lower¬ 
most B. 
Tawny on the outside and granulated; the outer coat hard. Whitish or 
purplish within. About one inch and a half diameter. Micheli. 
* This is one of the best of esculent Fungi. Dogs are taught to hunt it, and when 
they scent it they bark, and scratch up the earth. Pigs likewise in Italy root it up, 
when an attendant takes it from them. (When salted, Truffles are used in the 
Japanese soups. They are eaten either roasted like potatoes, or dried and sliced as 
ragouts. In Italy they are produced of several pounds weight; in this country seldom 
more than a few ounces. They fetch a considerable price in Covent Garden market. 
The Romans esteemed them so essential an acquisition that they imported them from 
Africa ; and the luxurious Athenians are said to have manumitted the whole family of 
Cherips, for having invented a delicious mode of preparing Truffles. E.) 
*|* (As an article of food its qualities are much the same as those of the preceding. 
Sowerby. E.) 
