Order Hymenomycetes. Tribe Pileati. 



Plate XXI. 



CANTHARELLUS LUTESCENS, orevitte 



e. 



Yellowish Chanterelle. 



Gen. Char. Pileus furnished below with Jichotomous, radiating, branched, subparallel folds, not separable from 

 the flesh, sometimes anastomosing or obsolete.' 



Spec. Char. Cantharellus lutescens. Pileus from an inch to three inches broad, depressed, at length 

 infundibuliform, not pervious, submembranaeeous, undulated, floccose, yellowish livid brown ; veins decun-ent, 

 anastomosing, flexuous, yellow, flesh-colom-ed, or salmoa-colom-ed. Stem from two to thi-ee inches high, from two 

 to three lines thick, yellow or reddish, hoUow, unequal. 



Canthaeellus lutescens, Greville, Berkeley. 



Hah. Moist situations in pine woods. Summer and autumn. Rare. Near Edinburgh, Br. Greville. Avington, 

 Hants, Miss F, Reed. 



It would be scarcely fair to hold up tlie present Chanterelle to the reproach of the world as poisonous, 

 although certainly suspicion attaches to it. The difficulty of identifying the precise species described by 

 Persoon or Bulhard makes us hesitate as to any further synonyms than those we have given. But if the 

 Mycologist feels disappointed at the imperfect settlement of a vexed question, the gastronomist need not 

 do so; he is in nowise concerned witii our puzzle, his safe and pleasant Cantharellus cibarius is satisfac- 

 torily difTerent from its rare, but doubtful cousin. "What the older authors meant by " Merulius" or "Sel- 

 vella " lutescens, whether it be truly a Cantharellus, or, more strictly, according to the arrangement of 

 Fries, a Craterellus, may break the slumbers of the botanist, but cannot spoil the peace of the bon-vivant, 

 who after eating plentifully of the genuine Chanterelle feels, according to Paulet, much " the lighter and 

 ayer " for the feat ! Sweet apricot-scented, sohd but succulent, white-fleshed, sapid and nutritive " Galli- 

 naccio," those organs, whether of taste, smeU, or sight, must be lamentably defective which can confound 

 you with congeners differing in aU respects, except that they wear yeUow in their costume ! It is with the 

 yellowest of these, Cantharellus aurantiacus, that our present subject is more likely to be confused, than 

 with the escident variety. There is, however, one test which may be safely appealed to, wjien other parti- 



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' Named from Kavdapos, a vase or cup ; the pileus being often so formed. 



