. Guide to Sowerby's models of British fungi in the Department of Botany, British Museum (Natural History) . 207. Tuber aastivum Vitt,at maturity, polygonallywarted outside and mottledwith white and yellowish-brown inside. It is usually subterra-nean, but is seldom foundmore than threeor four inchesbeneath the surface; it is sometimes half exposed. It Fig. go.-TuberaestivumVitt. and section. (Natural *? SlZd^ xSCUS X lOO* is generally about the size of a walnut, but may attain a diameter of three or more inches. Inrare cases single specimens weigh two, three, or four pounds. It isfound in per
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. Guide to Sowerby's models of British fungi in the Department of Botany, British Museum (Natural History) . 207. Tuber aastivum Vitt, at maturity, polygonallywarted outside and mottledwith white and yellowish-brown inside. It is usually subterra-nean, but is seldom foundmore than threeor four inchesbeneath the surface; it is sometimes half exposed. It Fig. go.-TuberaestivumVitt. and section. (Natural *? SlZd^ xSCUS X lOO* is generally about the size of a walnut, but may attain a diameter of three or more inches. Inrare cases single specimens weigh two, three, or four pounds. It isfound in perfection from July to late autumn. It grows in copses, hedgerows, and open places in plantations gregariously with otherspecies of Tuber, generally in plantations of beech, oak, or birch—rarely pine—on argillaceous or calcareous soil. The odour of T. cestivum is potent and to some persons agree-able, and can sometimes be detected where truffles grow. Squirrelsand pigs are fond of truffles, and scratch them up. Edible, but hard and indigestible. The truffle of France, used pdte de foie gras and pou