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The ripe pseudospores are enveloped in a thick tegument, of a dark brown colour.

The third a harder tegument or shell, which lieth under the Mace.

As it ripens the yellow external tegument opens, revealing the dark-red mace, that is closely enwrapped about a thin black shell.

I am not ignorant that our ancestors ate them seethed, or boiled—but what a sacrifice of the exterior tegument!

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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