CLASSIFICATION OP A.GARK 



**(Hlls approaching the form oj thosi oj trui Agarics, ■ 

 crowded. 



8. Cantherellus umbonatus l'r. (Edibu 

 Byst. Myc, L821. 



Illustrations: Cooke, 111.. PI. l L06. 



(iillci. Champignons de Prance, No. 94. 

 Ricken, Blatterpilze, PI. 2, Pig. I. 

 Michael, Ptihrer r. Pilzfreunde, Vol. [II, No. 51. 

 Peck, N. Y. State Mas. Bull. 67, 1*1. 84, Pig. 8-21 (at 

 dichotomous Pk.). 



PILEUS _ I cm. broad, top-shaped, convex to plane and depressed, 

 brownish-gray to blackish or smoky-gray, with or nit/unit n slight 

 umbo, pruinose <»r flocculose, dry, pliant, margin regular or wavy. 

 FLESH thin, white, becoming reddish with age <»r some time after 

 picking. GILLS decurrent, rather narrow, thick, dichotomouslv 

 branched, not ridge-form, close, white, then stained yellowish o\ red 

 <fish, even on edge. STEM 3-8 cm. long, I 7 nun. thick, equal or 

 attenuated up or down, elastic, pallid or pale gray, Bometimes 

 smoky above, appressed-silky, stalled, soft lleshy fibrous within. 



SPORES narrow, subfusiform-elliptical, 9-11x34.5 micr., si th. 



white in mass. 



Gregarious, attached to moss, especially Polytrichum, around 

 peat-bogs or in swampy woods. 



Houghton, Ann Arbor, probably in lake districts throughout tin- 

 state. July-October. Frequent in fall till frosts or later. 



Distinguished from the preceding two by the more highly de 



veloped gills, the slight ombb and the tendency for the flesh and 

 gills to assume reddish stains after being collected. In man; 

 it is attached directly by its mycelium to the stems and leaves of 

 living mosses. There is ao doubt that C. dichotomous Pk. i- the 



s.-ime species, since the descriptions of C. Umbonatus with which 



Peek compared his plant were incomplete, as Saccardo omitted the 

 faet that the gills are dichotomoush forked. 



