SPECIES OF CANTHARELLUS. 37 
If of fair size in the fresh plant it becomes small and inconspicuous 
in the dried specimen. In consequence of this disagreement between 
the American plant and the descriptions of the European, the former 
was supposed to be distinct, and described in the Twenty-third Re- 
port as Cantharellus dichotomus; but from its close agreement in 
other respects I am now of the opinion that our plant is but a variety 
of the European, and I have modified the description of the species 
so that it may include our forms. I have looked in vain for a de- 
scription of the spore characters of this species in any of the Euro- 
pean works at my command. These characters here given are taken 
from the American plant. Should they be found to differ from 
those of the European plant, it will be necessary to keep our plant 
distinct. In ours, as in the European, wounds of the flesh and 
lamellz often change to a reddish hue, and sometimes the lamelle 
assume this color in drying. When growing among mosses the stem 
is often considerably elongated, and the white tomentum at its base 
so closely invests the surrounding mosses that it is difficult to pluck 
the plant entire without taking with it a tuft of moss. 
EucANTHARELLUS. Lamelle very narrow, thick, vein-like, abun- 
danily branching or anastomosing ; pileus narrowly obconic-; stem 
very short. 
The species of this section appear thus far to be peculiar to America. 
Cantharellus floccosus Schw. 
Floccose Chantarelle. 
Pileus fleshy, firm, elongated funnel-form or trumpet shape, floc- 
cose-scaly, ochraceous-yellow ; lamelle thick, narrow, close, abun- 
dantly anastomosing above, long-decurrent and subparallel below, 
subconcolorous ; stem very short, thick, sometimes with a flexuous, 
root-like prolongation ; spores ochraceous, narrowly elliptical, .0005 
to .0006 in. long, .0003 in. broad, with an oblique apiculus at 
one end. 
Plant 2 to 5 in. high, pileus 2 to 4 in. broad, stem 4 to 8 lines 
thick. 
Woods and their borders. Common. July and August. 
This is our largest species of Chantarelle. At first the plant is 
almost cylindrical, it being scarcely broader at the top than at the 
base ; but it gradually expands above and spreads its margin until it 
becomes trumpet-shaped. The pileus of the young plant is some- 
