In a popular fungal guidebook published in the 1860s, Mordecai Cooke reported that “some years ago the [English] town of Basingstoke was paved; and not many months afterward the pavement was observed to exhibit an unevenness which could not readily be accounted for. In a short time after, the mystery was explained, for some of the heaviest stones were completely lifted out of their beds by the growth of large toadstools beneath
