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Was that the devil's toadstool, which the schoolmaster had marked on the board at school as poisonous, or was it one of the dainty boleti edules, which her father liked so much? Oh, dear, she had not listened very attentively; Mr. Böhnke was holding before them.
The variety of small, beautifully-shaped ferns, lichens, and boleti, made the place quite a museum of cryptogamic plants. We then continued our voyage, and in the evening arrived at Villa Nova, a straggling village containing about seventy houses, many of which scarcely deserve the name, being mere mud-huts roofed with palm-leaves. We stayed here four days.
On leaving Neuvic I noticed a woman carrying to the baker's a large dish of edible boleti, known to the French as cepes. This excellent fungus during the late summer and autumn is a very important article of food in France wherever there are extensive chestnut-woods.
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