Leucosporae 



center is generally darker than the rest. It may be dull purple or Russuia. 

 greenish purple with a brownish or blackish center, or sometimes with an 

 olive green center, or it may be olive green or smoky green with a 

 brownish center. Olive green and purplish hues of various shades are 

 variously combined, but sometimes the margin is grayish and the center 

 olive green. The flesh is white and its taste mild. The gills are white 

 when young, or barely tinged with yellow, but they become pale yel- 

 low with age. They are neither crowded nor widely attached to the 

 stem, and are connected with each other by cross veins, which can be 

 seen at the bottom of the interspaces. The stems are rather slender, 

 soft or spongy, sometimes becoming hollow and occasionally tapering 

 upward. They are very constantly and persistently white. The cap 

 is 1-2.5 inches broad, the stem 1-2.5 inches long, 3-5 lines thick. 

 This russula grows under or near pine, spruce or balsam fir trees. It 

 occurs from July to October. It is tender and palatable. The stems 

 also are tender and may be cooked with the caps. Peck, 54th Rep. N. 

 Y. State Bot. 



CantharellllS cinnabarillUS Schw. Cinnabar Chantarelle. (Plate V.) canthareiius, 

 PileilS firm, convex or slightly depressed in the center, often irregular 

 with a wavy or lobed margin, glabrous, p , v ^ 



cinnabar red. Flesh white. LamellSB 

 narrow, distant, branched, decurrent, 

 red . Stem equal or tapering downward , 

 glabrous, solid or stuffed, red. Spores ( 

 elliptic, S-IO|U, long, 4-5/A broad. 



The cinnabar Chantarelle is readily 

 recognized by its color. It is exter- 

 nally red in all its parts, the interior 



onlv being |white. It is a small spe- CANTHARELLUS CINNABARINUS PK. 



About one-half nat. size. After Peck, 

 cies but often quite irregular m shape. 



Small specimens are more likely to be regular than large ones. Some- 

 times the cap is more fully developed on one side than on the other. 

 This makes the stem eccentric or in some cases almost lateral. The 

 color is quite constant, but in some instances it is paler and approaches 

 a pinkish hue. It is apt to fade or even disappear in dried specimens. 

 The gills are blunt on the edge as in other species of this genus. They 

 are forked or branched, narrow and decurrent. 



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