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intense carmine, and the folds and stem are white. The 

 Emetic Eussula (R. emetica) is scarcely less handsome, 

 the colour being almost of the new magenta tint, varying 

 in every shade from white to the deepest hue. The cap 

 is expanded, not cupola-shaped, as in the last species ; 

 and the fungus is very unwholesome. It abounds in 

 field borders, called in Kent shores, about Hawkhurst. 



We now come to a group with branched and swollen 

 folds, blunt at the edges, and rather like veins than 

 agaric folds. The Chanterelle of the French, Cantharellus 

 of Britain, has one edible species [Plate XIX., Jig. 12), 

 Cibarius. This fungus is apricot coloured, variable in 

 form, and very abundant where it grows at all. I first 

 saw it studding the grass under trees at A^irginia Waters ; 

 and I saw it, later in the same year, in tenfold abund- 

 ance in the Bracklyn woods near Callander. The tawny 

 Chanterelle (C. tubseformis) I found in Wiltshire ; the 

 veins are thicker, and more distant than in the edible 

 species, and the stem is compressed. It is the scarcest 

 species of the two. There is a pretty slender species, 

 parasitic on moss or thatch, and elsewhere, the moss, 

 Chantarelle (C. muscigenus) ; but it has not rewarded our 

 search. 



A curious genus, with waxy veins, often growing para- 

 sitically on other fungi, is termed Nyctalis. The Starry 

 Nyctalis 1 found on some dead agarics, near Hawkhurst ; 

 but the folds were not fully formed. Berkeley tells us, 

 that the meal powdering its cap consists of starry bodies, 

 seeming to be a second kind of fruit : hence the specific 



name. 



The marasmius group contains the true fairy-ring 



