320 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



solid, tliickened upwards and passing gradually into the 

 turbinate pileus, a character that separates this species from 

 all others. Gills very decurrent, more tumid than in other 

 species, distant, branched, narrow, resembling folds. Smell 

 none. Taste pleasant. (Fries.) 



var. rufipes. Gillet, Hym. France, ser. 13; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 339 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 1131a. 



Flesh pale ochraceous ; stem rufous at the base. 



Cantharellus Friesii. Quel. 



Pileus |-1J in. across, flesh rather thin, white, convex 

 then more or less depressed, downy, pale opaque huffish 

 orange ; gills decurrent, thickish, narrow, branched, coloured 

 like the pileus or paler; stem about J in. long, 3 lines thick, 

 solid, downy, expanding upwards into the j)ileus, paler than 

 the pileus, base whitish. 



Cantharellus Friesii, Quelet, Fung. Jura et Vosg., t. 23, 

 f. 2 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 339 ; Cke., Illustr., pL 1131b. 



In woods. 



Intermediate between Cantharellus ciharius and C. auran- 

 tiacus, with the gills of the former, and the habit of the 

 latter. (Cooke.) 



Cantharellus aurantiacus. Fr. (fig. 4, p 301.) 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, flesh rather thin, depressed and more 

 or less irregular and wavy, soft, rather tomentose, dingy 

 opaque orange, sometimes paler; gills decurrent, crowded, 

 rather thin, striate at the sides, forked, brighter-coloured 

 than the pileus ; stem J— f in. long, about 3 lines thick, 

 slightly thickened upwards and expanding into the pileus, 

 coloured like the pileus, base often darker, stuffed or 

 imperfectly hollow; spores elliptical, smooth, 10 X 5 /x. 



Cantharellus aurantiacus, Fries, Syst. Myc, i. p. 318; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 339 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 1104. 



Heaths, fir woods, &c. 



Gills sometimes paler than the pileus, nearly white, 

 (Cooke.) 



Gregarious. Pileus l-}r-2 in. broad, often irregular, slightly 

 depressed, tomentose, though sometimes quite smooth, as in 

 Scotch specimens gathered by Klotzsch, of a beautiful 

 orange ; margin paler and involute ; sometimes there are 



