SPECIES OF CANTHARELLUS. 35 
In LeprocaNTHARELULUS the pileus is fleshy but thin, and floccose, 
fibrillose or pruinose. It is umbilicate, centrally depressed or funnel- 
shaped and sometimes pervious. The lamelle are mostly sparingly 
branched, and the slenderstem is generally hollow. The last three 
groups contain species which have their respective counterparts or 
- corresponding species in the genus Craterellus. 
In the diagnosis of the genus which I have quoted the spores are 
said to be white, but in some of our species they vary considerably 
from this color. 
The name of the genus is derived trom cantharus, a kind of drink- 
ing cup. 
Synopsis of the Species. 
1 Lamelle thin, regularly and repeatedly dichotomous. 2. 
2 Lamelle orange-colored. C. aurantiacus. 
2 Lamelle white. C. umbonatus. 
1 Lamellz thick, simple or irregularly branched. 3. 
3 Stem very short, hairy or subtomentose. 4. 
4 Pileus floccose-scaly. C. floccosus. 
4 Pileus glabrous. ~ C. brevipes.~ 
3 Stem longer, glabrous. 5. 
5 Pileus glabrous, yellow. 6. 
6 Pileus thick, stem solid. C. cibarius. 
6 Pileus thin, stem stuffed or hollow. * C. minor. 
5 Pileus glabrous, cinnabar-red. C. cinnabarinus. _ 
5 Pileus not glabrous. 7. 
7 Floccose or fibrillose. 8. 
8 Dingy-yellow or brownish. C. infundibuliformis. 
8 Dingy-cinereous or blackish-cinereous. — , »C. cinereus. 
7 Pruinose. 4 C. pruinosus. 
AGaricompEs. Lamelle thin, close, regularly dichotomous. 
Cantharellus aurantiacus Wulf. 
Orange Chantarelle. False Chantarelle. 
Pileus fleshy, thick, soft, minutely tomentose, plane or slightly 
depressed, yellowtsh-orange, often tinged with smoky-brown, the mar- 
gin decurved or involute, flesh whitish or yellowish ; lamelle narrow, 
close. repeatedly forked, decurrent, dright-orange, sometimes yellow- 
ish ; stem equal or slightly tapering upward, solid, subconcolorous ; 
spores subelliptical, .00025 to .0003 in. long, .00016 to .00018 broad. 
Plant 2 to 3 in. high, pileus 1 to 3 in. broad, stem 2 to 5 lines thick. 
Ground and much decayed wood. Common in hilly and moun- 
tainous districts. July to October. 
