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are ochraceous or yellow ochraceous. The stem is very short and may be 

 either glabrous or hairy. In some cases it is elongated and somewhat curved 

 or rlexuous and extended like a horizontal root among fallen leaves. The 

 cap is 2 to 4 inches broad at the top, and 3 to 6 inches long. The plants 

 are gregarious and grow in woods from July to September. My trial of its 

 edible qualities was very satisfactory, and I consider it a very good mush- 

 room for the table. 



Cantharellus lutescens Fr. 



Yellowish Chantarelle 



PLATE 56, fig. I-S 



Pileus thin, convex, becoming nearly plane and umbilicate, nearly regu- 

 lar, pale orange or yellow when moist, paler and slightly virgate when dry ; 

 lamellae narrow, distant, forked or branched, decurrent, pale orange or 

 yellow ; stem equal or slightly tapering upward, glabrous, hollow, pale 

 orange or yellow ; spores broadly elliptic, .0004 of an inch long, .0003 

 broad. 



The yellowish chantarelle occurs in woods and shaded places, growing 

 among mosses, about old stumps or in soil well filled with decomposed vege- 

 table matter. It may be sought in July and August. It has been regarded 

 by some writers as a variety of the trumpet chantarelle, Cantharellus 

 tubaeformis Fr., from which it may be distinguished by its more regular 

 convex and umbilicate cap and by its more regular stem, which is equal or 

 slightly tapering upward, not compressed, irregular and tapering downward 

 as in that species. It is intermediate in character between that species and 

 the funnel form chantarelle. It is somewhat variable in the color of the 

 cap and seems to be commonly paler than the European form, which is 

 described as having its cap brownish yellow. In the young plant the cap is 

 not always umbilicate but it becomes so with age, and sometimes the umbili- 

 cus opens into and becomes continuous with the cavity of the stem. A 

 wholly yellow form sometimes occurs, and generally the color of the cap, gills 

 and stem is nearly alike in this species, so far as we have observed it. The 

 gills are very narrow and forked or slightly branched. They do not become 

 pruinose or dusted so conspicuously by the spores in maturity or in drying 

 as do the gills of the funnel form chantarelle, and sometimes they remain 



