Left to his own gadgets, we study, the truffle-searching canine indicates the place not only of truffles, but in addition of all method of hypogean (underground) fungi, "the large and the small, the fresh and the putrid, the scented and the unscented, the fragrant and the stinking." Only, he never at any time signifies the presence of the bizarre mushroom, not even while it continues to be underground, before it sprouts up as the fungus we know. While areas like Alba and Tuscany are known for t...