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| | Nabokov on Mushrooms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06) |
 | | Her main delight was in the quest, and this quest had its rules. |
 | | Thus, no agarics were taken; all she picked were species belonging to the edible section of the genus Boletus (tawny edulis, brown scaber, red aurantiacus, and a few close allies), called 'tube mushrooms' by some and coldly defined by mycologists as 'terrestrial, fleshy, putrescent, centrally stipitate fungi'. |
 | | It is, however, to the latter, to the lowly and ugly agarics, that nations with timorous taste buds limit their knowledge and appetite..." (10) |
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