Leucosporee 



any other species. Suspicion has been thrown upon C. aurantiacus. Canthareiius. 

 There is such a marked difference between the excellence of the genus 

 in West Virginia and other localities, that it is possible C. aurantiacus 

 may be noxious elsewhere, but the writer has not found it so ; and it 

 would be an astonishing contradiction of Nature's ways if it was. 



Stevenson says: "It (C. cibarius) must have four hours slow cook- 

 ing." The writer has found thirty minutes to be sufficient; and it will 

 fry in butter as quickly as any other fungus. 



ANALYSIS OF TRIBES. 



MESOPUS (inesos, middle; poiis, a foot). Page 215, 



Stem central. 

 *Stem solid. 

 **Stem tubular. 



PLEUROPUS (pleura, the side; potis, a foot). 

 Stem lateral. 



RESUPINATUS (resupinatus, lying on the back). 

 Stem absent. 



All the species known to be edible belong to Mesopus. 



ME'SOPUS. 

 * Stem solid, 



C. Cibarius Yr.cibaria, food. (Plate XLVI, fig. 4, p. . 214. 

 Plate XLVII.) PileilS fleshy, obconic, smooth, egg-yellow, slightly 

 depressed. Gills thick, distant, more or less branching and anastomos- 

 ing, concolorous. Stem firm, solid, often tapering downward, con- 

 colorous. Flesh white. 



Height 2-4 in., breadth of pileus 2-3 in. Stem 3-6 lines thick. 



In open woods and grassy places. Common. July and August. 



Edible. The smell of apricots is not always clearly perceptible in 

 American specimens. Peck, Monograph New York Species of Can- 

 thareiius, Rep. 23. 



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