

THE THELEPHORACEiE OF NORTH AMERICA. II^ 



Ckatekellus 



edward angus burt 



Mycologist and Librarian to the Missouri Botanical Garden 



Associate Professor in the Henry Shaw School of Botany of 



Washington University 



CRATERELLUS 



Craterellus Pers. Myc. Eur. 2:4. 1825. — Fries, Epicr. 531. 

 1838; Hym. Eur. 630. 1874. — Saccardo, Syll. Fung. 6:514. 

 1888.— Hennings, in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. (i. 1**): 

 127. 1898. 



The type species of the genus is Craterellus cornucopioides 

 L. ex Pers. 



Fructifications fleshy or membranaceous, pileate, often tubi- 

 form, infundibuliform, or flabelliform, sometimes clavate; 

 hymenium waxy-membranous, distinct, continuous, adnate to 

 the hymenophore, even or rugose; basidia simple; spores usually 

 white. 



Craterellus is closely related by its fleshy C. Cantharellus, 



C. odoratus, C. lutescens, etc., with the genus Cantharellus. 

 These species resemble so closely in coloration and habit species 

 of the latter genus that careful examination of the hymenium 



H should be made for generic determination. Craterellus has 



f^ its hymenium even or slightly rugose. In exceptional con- 



"^ necting species, such as C. clavatus, it is somewhat lamelliform 



^ for a part of the distance from margin of the pileus to the stem. 



^ The clavate C. pistillaris and C. unicolor connect Craterellus 



-c*5 closely with Clavaria. 



Ti"' Craterellus cornucopioides, C. ochrosporus, C. clavatus, C. 



ifi Cantharellus, and C. odoratus are edible species, which are often 



*"* abundant locally. 



1 , 1 Issued September 30, 1914. 



(5 Note. — Explanation in regard to the citation of specimens studied is given in 



i3 Part I, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. i : 202, footnote. The technical color terms used in 

 ' this work are those of Ridgway, Color Standards and Nomenclature. Washington, 



D. C, 1912. 



Ann. Mo. Bot. Gaed., Vol. 1, 1914 (327) 



