CLASSIFICATION OF AGARICS 



Craterellus, a genus of the Thelephoraceae, whose bymenial surface 

 is merely wrinkled and aol gill-like. The fleshy species are much 

 sought after for the table, and all of them are edible. Pries, in 

 Epicrisis, included species whose stems are lateral or lacking; these 

 have been segregated under other genera. 



Tin* I'lLFJ'S ni.-iy be <lull yellow, orange, red, cinereous or lilac- 

 tinged. Sometimes it is deeply infundibuliform, ;is in the mature 

 C. floccnsus, or it may remain obtuse as in C. cmnabarinus. In the 

 ashy of ashy-brown species the FLESB is thin ami almosl mem- 

 branaceus ami these approach species of Craterellus: in the others 

 the flesh is thick. The GILLS afford the besl means of recognizing 

 the genus. In C. wurwntiaeus, however, the gills are thin, and, ex- 

 cepl lor their marked dichotomous character, iliis species mighl be 

 plated in the genus Clitocybe. The STEM is moderately stout in 

 most species. In the fleshy forms il is solid, while in the cinereous- 

 colored, thinner species it tends to become hollow, and in G. in* 

 fundibuliformls the pileus is perforated so as to form an open tube 

 down through the stem. The SPOILS are usually elliptical or 

 elongated, smooth, mostly white or whitish, but in some species 

 tinged with yellow or ochraceous in mass. The BASIDIA are un- 

 usually elongated and approach those of Bygrophorus in this re- 

 spect : they are said to be sometimes six or eight-spored. The 01 >0E 

 and TASTE of our species is mild and agreeable. 



Key to the - s '/" cies 



(a) Plant cinnamon-red, fading, medium size. 5. C. dnnabarinus Schw. 

 (aa) Plant not red. 



ib) Pileus and gills some shade of yellow or orange. 



(c) Gills orange, thin, crowded. 9. C. mirmitiacus Fr. 

 (cc) Gills m>t crowded, ridge-form, 

 (d) Stem solid, firm. 

 (e) Plant markedly vase-shaped; pileus deeply funnel-form, 



firm, rufous-oranj occosua Schw. 



(ee) Plant somewhat top-shaped, entirely chrome-yellow or 



fla\ i I. C. cibarius Fr. 

 (del) Stem hollow, pileus thin, funnel-form. 6. C. iniumUhuU- 

 fin m '•■■■ Ft. 7. C. tubaeformis Ft. 

 (bb) Pileus and gills not both yellow. 

 (c) Gills flesh-color to purplish-lilaceus, ridge-form; id. 



2. C. clavatus Ft. 

 I cc) Gills not flesh-color. 

 (d) Pileus infundibuliform, cinereous or brownish cin< 

 (e) Pileus perforated in center, stem hollow. 6. C. infundi- 



buli Ft. 



(ee) Pileus nol perforated; stem stuffed or solid. 7. c tub* 

 Fr. 

 (dd) Pileus obtuse, or depressed; subumbonab rnlsb-gi 



S. C. umbonatus Fr. 



