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instances it is paler and approaches a pinkish hue. It is apt to fade or even 

 disappear in dried specimens. The gills are blunt on the edge as in other 

 species of this genus. They are forked or branched, narrow and decurrent. 

 The stem is small, smooth and usually rather short. It is generally 

 solid, but in the original description it is characterized as stuffed. The cap 

 is 8 to 18 lines broad; the stem 6 to 12 lines long and 1 to 3 broad. It 

 grows gregariously in thin woods and open places and may be found from 

 July to September. It sometimes occurs in great abundance, which adds to 

 its importance as an edible species. The fresh plant has a tardily and 

 slightly acrid flavor, but this disappears in cooking. In Epicrisis, Fries 

 referred this species to the genus Hygrophorus, and in Sylloge also it 

 is placed in that genus, but it is a true Cantharellus and belongs in the 

 genus in which Schweinitz placed it. 



Cantharellus floccosus Schw. 

 ' Floccose Chantarelle 



PLATE 55, A'- 9-' 3 



Pileus firm, rather thin, elongated funnel-form or trumpet-shaped, 

 deeply excavated, floccose s.quamulose, yellowish or subochraceous ; lamellae 

 thick, narrow, close, repeatedly forked, branched or anastomosing, very 

 decurrent, ochraceous yellow; stem short ; spores ochraceous, elliptic, .0005 

 to .0006 of an inch long, .0003 broad, with an oblique apiculus at one end 

 and usually uninucleate. 



The floccose chantarelle is a large and very distinct species. There is 

 nothing with which it can easily be confused. When young it is narrowly 

 club-shape or almost cylindric, but by the expansion of the upper part it soon 

 becomes trumpet-shaped. The cavity extends even into the stem. The 

 surface of the cap is somewhat floccose or scaly, but the scales may be 

 thick and persistent or thin and evanescent. The color is yellowish inclin- 

 ing to ochraceous, but the inner flesh is white. The flesh is so thin that 

 the weight of the whole plant is less than might be expected, judging from 

 the size. 



The gills are narrow, thick and blunt on the edge. They are so much 

 branched and connected by cross veins that much of the hymenial surface 

 has a coarsely reticulated appearance. Both the gills and the interspaces 



