by Elio — If beauty is in the eyes of the be­holder, then, faith and be­gorra as the Irish­men may say, so does ug­li­ness. It is widely stated in the my­cophile lit­er­a­ture that the ugli­est of mush­rooms is one called Pisolithus arhizus (once tinc­to­rius, for rea­sons I'll ex­plain soon)...