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B9^ 238.Sclerot. 10. SARCOTHECE^. PLcell.aph.
9. Sclerotium complanntum. Flattened corn-movld.
Thallus nearly orbicular, compressed, smooth, pale,
slightly stemmed.
Sclerotium complanatum, Tode Mecklen, 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 Tulwr cibarium. Food truffle.
Thallus nearly globular, outside black, warty; ivarts
large, blunt, angular.
Tubera,
Lycoyerdan 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 observing
where hogs wish to turn up the ground, and there
digging, or by having spaniels trained to point at them.
2. Tuber moschatum. Musk truffie.
Thallus roundish, smooth, black inside and out; flesh
soft becoming wrinkled ; when fresh smelling like musk.
Tuber moschatum, BuUiaid Champ. 79 ;
Subterraneous.
Used as the former.
Sotcerby Fungi, 426.
b. Root fibrous, grows near the surface. Tartufa.
3. Tuher 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.