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sliglit traces of an umbo. Folds bright orange, narrow, 

 straight, repeatedly dichotomous. Spores elliptic. Stem 

 1 in. high, ^-^- in. thick, often excentric and curved, at- 

 tenuated below, subequal, or incrassated at the base, in 

 general of the same colour as the pileus ; often black at the 

 base when old ; much smoother than the pileus. 



B. On the roots of grass. Pileus 1^- in. broad; depressed 

 and sometimes umbonate, nearly white, or shaded with rich 

 yellow-brown. Folds white or brownish cream-colour. Spores 

 elliptic. Stem 1-14- in. high, ^-^- in. thick, of the same 

 colour as the pileus. Smell strong. (Berk.) 



Cantharellus Brownii. B. & Br. 



Ochraceous- white or cream -col our. Pileus about h in. 

 across, flesh thin, orbicular, obtuse or slightly umbonate, 

 slightly silky ; gills subdecurrent, very narrow, rather 

 distant, simple or forked; stem 1^2 in. long, not 1 line 

 thick, tough, stufl'ed; spores broadly elliptical, smooth, 

 7 X 5 fjL, 



CaniliareUus Brownii, B. & Br., Berk., Outl., p. 216; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 340; Cke., Illustr., ^dL IIOGa. 



Among grass. 



Differs from the typical Cantliarellus type in the almost 

 simple, very narrow, not decurrent gills, and the specimen 

 sent to me suggested Arrhenia. (Fries.) 



Whole plant of a pale ochraceous cream-colour. Pileus 

 orbicular, thin, convex, subumbonate, ^ in. across, some- 

 times rather larger, obscurely silky. Stem slender, 1^-2 in. 

 high, scarce 1 line thick, nearly equal, subfurfuraceous, 

 furnished with a little white fibrillose mycelium at the base, 

 which sometimes forms a small earthy ball, rather tough, 

 stuffed. Folds linear, very narrow, sometimes slightly 

 forked, obtusely decurrent ; interstices smooth, occasionally 

 quite obsolete except towards the margin. Hymenium 

 nearly white. There is no described species allied to this, 

 except Cant, aurantiacus, which approaches to it by means of 

 its white variety. It is a very neat and beautiful fungus, 

 with very much the habit of Ag. hemispliaericus ( = Naucoria 

 sideroides), and with the stem stuffed as in that species. 

 (B. & Br.) 



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