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CAXTHARELLUS 



Plants flesliy, growing on the ground or (in one case) on wood, 

 stem central or laterally attached in one species, gills fold-like or 

 somewhat thin and approaching those of a Hygrophorus with an 

 obtuse edge, cap usually depressed in center, sometimes infundibuli- 

 form ; spores buif or ochraceous or rosy pink or light salmon.''^ 



Important literature : 



Murrill, K Am. Flora 9: 167. 1910. 

 Peck, K y. State Cab. Rep. 23 : 121. 1872. 

 Peck, K Y. State Mus. Bui. 2 : 34. 1887. 



Key to the Species of Cantharellus 



Stalk none or lateral, growing from the stems of liv- 

 ing mosses. 



Plant with a lateral stalk; cap glabrous C. muscigenus (2) 



Plant sessile, cap finely downy C. retirugus (1) 



Stalk central, not growing on mosses. 



Growing on rotting logs G. Ugnatilis (12) 



Growing on ground. 



Cap pallid brown, gills ashy vinaceous C. infundiiuUformis (3) 



Cap grayish-drab, black when bruised, odor 



very musky C. sinuosus (4) 



Cap grayish-brown, gills white or creamy C. umhonatns (11) 



Cap buffy-brown with lilac tint, flesh, lilac C. clavatus (8) 



Entire plant cinnabar red or cap red and gills 



orange C. cinnabarinus (9) 



Cap some shade of yellow or orange. 



Cap deeply infundibuliform, stem hollow. 

 • Plants thin, small, less than 5 cm. broad.. C. infundibulifo)-mis (3) 



Plants larger, over 5 cm. broad C. floccosus (5) 



Cap flat or only depressed, stem solid. 

 Cap and gills orange. 



Gills distant C. cinnabarinus, 



orange form (9), and 

 C. minor (10) 



Gills close G. aurantiacus (7) 



Cap and gills yellow or creamy G. cibariiis (6) 



*jrost authors sjioak of the si>ores as white for the penus, but this is not the case with 

 our Chapel Hill i>lants. In all of our species so far collected the spores have been distinctly 

 colored, when fresh. The color gradually fades in the herbarium. Beardslee writes me 

 that the spores of Asheville plants show similar colors. 



