A new Cantharellus from Maine 



By Tajcikn I\I. Underwood 



Cantharellus multiplex 



Cespitose-multiplex from a compact base which is nearly black 

 when dry ; pilci more or less flabellate, compound, 3—5 cm. wide, 

 nearly as long, blackish above in drying, cinereous beneath and 

 concolorous to the base of the stipe where it joins the blackish 

 base ; stipe 2—4 cm. long, often deeply grooved above by the de- 

 current margins of the pileus, occasionally somewhat tubular by 

 their union along the outer edges ; hymenium radiately venulose- 

 reticulate with irregular cross veinlets and frequent minute slit- 

 like fissures and larger irregular depressions ; spores copious, 5-6 ft 

 in diameter often appearing coarsely lobed when freshly moistened 

 as though formed of united granules. 



On the ground in dense woods of spruce and fir, Seal Harbor, 



Mt. Desert, Maine, August, 1898. 



Cantharellls multiplex sp. nov., about one-fourth natural size. 



The above description was taken from dried specimens which 

 were sent me by Mrs. Elizabeth W. Woodworth, of White Plains, 

 New York, who has also furnished the photograph from which the 

 half-tone illustration was prepared. Mrs. Woodworth furnishes 

 also the following data with reference to the plant in a fresh con- 

 dition : ** Growing in a large irregular mass and weighing from 

 one to three pounds. ^ ^ ^ T\\^ color of the fresh pileus 

 was dull purple or purplish lead color, the flesh was decidedly 



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