REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST 77 



Craterellus Cantharellus {Schw). 

 Chantarelle Craterellus. 



(Plate 44. Figs. 1-5.) 



Pileiis fleshy, firm, convex, often becoming centrally depressed or in- 

 fundibuliform, glabrous, yellow or pinkish-yellow, flesh white; hymenium 

 nearly even, slightly wrinkled, yellow; stem glabrous, solid, yellow ; spores 

 subelliptical, .0003 to .0004 mch'long, .0002 to .00025 broad. 



The Chantarelle craterellus resembles the true chantarelle so closely in 

 size, shape and color that it might at first sight easily be thought to be 

 an imperfectly developed form of it. Its color is yellow as in that plant, 

 but sometimes there is a slight pinkish tint to the cap, and a faint shade 

 of salmon or orange to the spore-bearing or under surface of the cap. 

 Its chief distinctive feature is found here, for instead of the blunt-edged 

 branching gills of the chantarelle, it presents an even surface or one ren- 

 dered slightly uneven by a few longitudinal wrinkles. The plant is more 

 frequently tufted in its mode of growth and this often causes the margin of 

 the cap to be wavy, irregular or lobed. The color of the spores, when 

 collected on a white background, is yellowish or pale salmon. 



The cap is i to 3 inches broad, the stem i to 3 inches high and 3 to 5 

 lines thick. The plants are found in copses or thin woods in August and 

 September. They are less common than the chantarelle. The flesh of 

 this plant is perhaps a little more tough than that of the chantarelle, but 

 its flavor is scarcely less agreeable. 



Boletus brevipes Peck. 

 Short-stemmed Boletus. 



(Plate 48, Figs. 1-5.) 



Pileus convex, covered with a thick tough gluten when young or moist, 

 dark chestnut color, sometimes fading to dingy-tawny, with age, the 

 margin inflexed, flesh white or tinged Avith yellow ; tubes short, adnate, 

 small, subrotund, at first whitish, then dingy-ochraceous; stem short, solid, 

 not dotted or sometimes with a few very minute inconspicuous dots at the 

 apex, whitish; spores subfusiform, .0003 inch long, .00012 broad. 



The Short-stemmed boletus is a near relative to the Granulated boletus, 

 B. grafiulatus, from which it differs especially in the darker color of the 

 cap, the more copious gluten the shorter stem and the absence of any 

 conspicuous dots or granules from the stem. Its cap is commonly 1.5 

 to 2.5 inches broad, its stem .5 to i inch long and 3 to 5 lines thick. It 



