From William Joseph Showalter's biography of Asarum canadense in The Book of Wild Flowers. "...the fungus gnats and the flesh flies are early on the job..." Mmm. No mention of its roots being delicious & contributive to renal failure, but one doesn't usually focus on the effects of consuming one's biographee.
dry cannibalism nonsense
Not in the published edition, anyway. Boswell's epilogue, Feast of Johnson, only circulated as a barely legible pamphlet, evading republication by consistently disappointing both the prurient & the hungry with its reticence.