124 FUNGI. [Cantharellus. 



sufficiently careful in his selection of the synonyms of this species. 

 JBull. t. 68, is surely very different, being above an inch across ; as also 

 some of the figures in ^.542; whereas he describes it as only 2 lines broad.- 



Appendix. Gomphvs; (from 'yc)fj^(poc, a wedge.) Gills strongly 

 decurrent, branched^ dista?it, distinct, changing colour, persistent^ 

 quite entire. Veil suhuniversal, glutinous, concrete. Stemjirm, 

 solid. Pileus jieshy, turbinate, viscid, smooth ; margin injlexed. 

 Asci large ; sporides dai^k, fusifonn. Analogous to Lioiacium. 

 Large solitary persistent fungi, growing on the ground. 



832. A. glutinosus, Schceff. (glutinous Agaric) ; pileus obtuse 

 glutinous purple-brovi'n, gills whitish cinereous. Schceff. t. 36. 

 Sow. t. 7.— A. velatus. With. v. 4. p. 156. Purt. v. 3. n. UBS. 

 — A. viscidus, Pers, Syn. p. 291, j8. rose-coloured, smaller, 

 stem attenuated downwards dilute flesh-colour. Nees, Syst. 

 f. 197. 



Pine-groves. July — Nov. Not common. Earsham. Broom and Kirby, 

 Norfolk. Mr. Woodwai'd. Packington, Warwickshire. — ''Pileus 2 — 5 

 inches broad. Gills truly branched. Stem 2 — 3 inches or more high, 

 ^ an inch thick, dirty-white, the base thickened and yellow, sometimes 

 adorned with black scales." Fr. I. c. 



/3. East Morden, Dorset. Sept. Rev. M. J. Berheleij. — Pileus 2 

 inches broad, plano-convex, very slimy, of a beautiful strawberry colour, 

 shining, when dry, with a satiny lustre. Gills albido-cinereous, very 

 decurrent, forked, distant ; veil thick, filamentous and coloured within 

 by the sporules, which are fusiform, but paler than in A. rutilus. Asci 

 large. Stem attenuated downwards, solid but spongy, silky with a pale 

 tinge of rose. 



333. A. rutilus, SchoefF. (purplish-red Agaric) ; pileus umbo- 

 nate subviscous brown-red, gills purple-umber. Schceff. t. 55. 

 Sow. t. 105. With. V. 4. p. 170. Purt. v. 2 ^ 3. n. 914. 

 Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 1. jj?. 315. Klotzsch, Fung. Germ.exs.n.22. 

 — A. jecorinus. With. v. 4. p. 162. — A. Gomphus, Pers. Ic. et 

 Desc. ^. 13./ 1. 3. 



Amongst Scotch Firs. Aug. — Oct. Common. — Pileus 2 — 3 inches 

 broad, top-shaped, umbonate, yellow in the centre, the margin liver- 

 coloured, shining. Gills decurrent, somewhat branched, firm, elastic, 

 thick, entire, purple-brown, the shorter connected with the longer. 

 Asci large. Sporules dark, fusiform. Stem 2 — 3 inches high, ^ — % of 

 an inch thick, rhubarb-coloured without and within, fibrillose, attenuated 

 below, firm, solid, slimy from the remains of the veil which form an 

 obsolete filamentous ring. 



2. Cantharellus. Adans. Chantarelle. 



Pileus furnished below with dichotomous radiating branched 

 subparallel folds, not separable from the flesh, sometimes anas- 

 tomosing or obsolete. — Name, xcti/^agog, a vase or cup : the pileus 

 being often so formed. 



1. C. aurantiacus, WxAi. (orange Chantarelle) ; pileus fleshy 

 subdepressed tomentose orange-ochre as well as the stuffed 



