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short ones occur near the margin. They are white and unchange- 

 able. The stem also is white. This mushroom is more common 

 with us than the greenish russula, which it resembles in size and 

 flavor. It grows in woods and open ground and appears in July 

 and August. 



Cantharellus dichotomus Pk. 



DICHOTOMOUS CHANTARELLE 



PLATE 84, FIG. 8-21 



Pileus fleshy, soft and flexible, subconie when young, with the 

 margin involute and downy or flocculent, convex, nearly plane or 

 centrally depressed when mature, even or with a small pointed 

 umbo, dry, glabrous, variable in color, flesh white, taste mild; 

 lamellae narrow, close, dichotomous, decurrent, white or yellow- 

 ish; stem equal or tapering upward, solid, glabrous or slightly 

 fibrillose; spores narrowly elliptic, .0003-.0004 of an inch long, 

 .00016 broad. 



The dichotomous chantarelle is a small but common species in 

 our hilly and mountainous districts. It grows in woods among 

 mosses or in pastures and bushy places among grasses and fallen 

 leaves. The cap is generally broadly convex with decurved 

 margin, but sometimes it becomes centrally depressed by the 

 elevation of the margin. The umbo is small and usually acute, 

 or papillalike, but it is often entirely absent. The margin is 

 involute and minutely flocculent or downy when young, but it 

 soon becomes naked. The surface is smooth or obscurely silky 

 and occasionally becomes minutely rimose areolate. The color 

 is very variable and may be grayish white, grayish brown, yel- 

 lowish brown, blackish brown or bluish gray. The flesh is white 

 or whitish, and the taste mild. The gills are narrow, thin, close, 

 decurrent and 1-3 times forked. They are white or whitish, 

 sometimes tinged with yellow. In moist weather wounds of 

 them and also of the stem sometimes become reddish. The stem 

 is equal in diameter or slightly tapering upward. It is glabrous 

 or slightly fibrillose, solid, whitish or pallid or colored like the 

 pileus, and when growing among mosses is clothed below with 

 a soft, dense, white tomentum, which binds it so closely to the 

 mosses that it is difficult to take a specimen without breaking 

 the stem unless the mosses are taken with it. 



