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row, rather distant, chrome-yellow, edge blunt. STEM 3-6 cm. long, 

 stout, 6-12 mm. thick, narrower downwards, solid, fleshy, glabrous, 

 chrome-yellow to pale yellow, often tunneled by larvae. SPORES 

 elliptical, 7 x 4-5 inicr., smooth, faintly ochraceous-tinged. 

 "BASIDIA 50-75x7-8 micr., 4-spored, sometimes 5-6 spored." 

 ODOR and TASTE mild and pleasant. 



Gregarious or subcaespitose, often scattered. On the ground in 

 frondose or conifer forests . Throughout the state, from the south- 

 ern border to Isle Royale. July-September (rarely earlier or later). 

 Frequent only in certain seasons. 



This is the famous "Chantarelle" of Europe, where it is highly 

 prized, both on account of its flavor and from the fact that its flesh 

 is free from larvae. In Michigan, and probably elsewhere in the 

 eastern part of the United States, the fastidious lovers of mush- 

 room meat are, alas, not so fortunate as their European brethren. 

 During many years of collecting, I have rarely found this mushroom 

 free from larvae and I have a large number of records. Occasion- 

 ally, immediately after its rapid development due to favorable 

 weather, I have found unattached specimens. The color is often 

 much paler yellow than that mentioned above and a white form is 

 sometimes found. It is not easily confused with 0. a/urantiacus } 

 which has thin and crowded gills and different shades of yellow. 



'5. Cantherellus cinnabarinus Schw. (Edible) 

 Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. II, 4, 1832. 



Illustrations : Peck, N. Y. State Mus. Mem. 4, PI. 55, Fig. 1-8. 

 Murrill, Mycologia, Vol. 5, PI. 02, Fig. 3. 

 Hard, Mushrooms, Fig. 161, p. 202, 1008. 

 Plate II of this Report. 



PILEUS 1.5-3 cm. broad (rarely up to 7 cm.), firm, convex and 

 obtuse or expanded-depressed, often irregular, glabrous, cinnabar- 

 red, often faded, entirely faded in dried specimens. FLESH rather 

 thin, whitish or tinged reddish toward surface. GILLS long- 

 decurrent, dichotomously forked, rather distant, narrow and ridge- 

 form, intervenose, cinnabar-red, yellowish or pinkish. STEM 2-4 

 cm. long, 4-6 mm. thick, solid or subcavernous, terete or compressed 

 at apex, equal or tapering downward, tough-fleshy, glabrous, even, 

 cinnabar-red or paler. SPORES oblong-elliptical, 8-10x4-5.5 micr., 

 smooth, white or faintly pink in mass. BASIDIA long and narrow, 

 4-spored. ODOR and TASTE mild. 



