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rather more ^^vidly coloured tlian that which was named 

 Cantharellus stolonifer. 



The pileus is 2 to 6 cms. diameter, ahnost plane witli a 

 decurved margin at first, then deeply umbihcate with a plane 

 or strongly decurved margin, or sometimes entirely infundi- 

 buhform with the margin recurved. In one instance, of two 

 large specimens, connate at the base, one was infundibuhform 

 with a recurved margin, while the other was hemispherical 

 and umbonate. The general colour of the whole fungus is 

 greenish yellow, sometimes pale yellow, sometimes almost 

 white, more highly coloured when young, becoming yellowish 

 white in large specimens when full grown. The pileus is thin, 

 radially sulcate when mature, streaked with radial lines of 

 blackish- brown fibrils, blackish in the centre. Some young 

 specimens are so closely streaked that they appear quite 

 black. 



The stalk is 2 to 4-5 cm. high, 2 to 4 mm. diameter, greenish 

 yellow, or pale yellow, or white, usually streaked with blackish 

 fibrils or covered with minute black points, but sometimes 

 wholly white ; it is equal, sHghtly expanded and truncate at 

 the base, stuffed, then hollow, sometimes tomentose at the 

 base. 



The gills are greenish yellow, pale yellow, or white, strongly 

 decurrent, rather distant, broad, somewhat arcuate, inter- 

 stices veined. The spores are white, oval, 6-8 X 4-5 u. 



Specimens of medium size are usually gi'eenish yellow. 

 Large specimens are pallid yellow, and their giUs are often 

 wliite witli a yellow tinge near the stalk. In drier weather 

 the stalk and gills are quite white. The figures which 

 Berkeley and Broome named Om'phalia anthidepas are palhd 

 yellow with a strongly streaked pileus ; the gills are pallid 

 yellow, but the stalks are almost white ; a note by Thwaites 

 written across the figure states " Gills sometimes more yellow." 

 These figures also illustrate the variation in shape ; one is 

 deeply umbihcate with the outer half decurved, another is 

 almost plane and shghtly umbonate, while the third, which 

 is shown in section, is plane. The figure of Hygrophorns 

 ■prasinun shows a young specimen witli tlie pileus not fully 

 developed, everywhere yellowish-green ; that of Cantharellus 



