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times tinged with orange. The scales are sometimes thick and_per- 
sistent, and again thin and subevanescent. The pileus is depressed or 
umbilicate at a very early age, and it frequently becomes pervious 
when mature. The interstices or reticulations formed by the anas- 
tomosing of the lamelle are in some specimens as broad as long, in 
others much longer than broad. The stem is often, though not 
always, somewhat tomentose. 
Cantharellus brevipes Pk. 
Short-stemmed Chantarelle. 
Pileus fleshy, narrowly obconic, glabrous, alutaceous or dingy cream 
color, the thin margin erect, often irregular and lobed, tinged with 
lilac in the young plant, flesh soft, whitish ; lamellz numerous, nearly 
straight on the margin, abundantly anastomosing below, pale umber 
tinged with lilac; stem short, tomentose-pubescent, solid, cinereus, 
often tapering downwards ; spores yellowish, oblong-elliptical, uninu- 
cleate, .0004 to .0005 in. long, .0002 in. broad. 
Plant subceespitose, 3 to 4 in. high, pileus 2 to 3 in. broad, stem 
4 to 6 lines thick. 
Woods. Ballston. July. 
This is a very rare species. It occurred in very limited quantity ° 
in 1879, in the locality mentioned, and has not since been found. — It 
is smaller than OQ. floccosus, more cespitose in its mode of growth, 
and with thinner lamelle. The thick fleshy pileus is neither pervious 
nor umbilicate and but slightly depressed. 
CANTHARELLUS. Lamelle narrow, distant, sparingly and irregu- 
larly branched or anastomosing ; pileus fleshy, glabrous ; stem fleshy, 
generally solid. ; 
Cantharellus cibarius Fr. 
Edible Chantarelle. 
Pileus fleshy, firm, convex, then expanded or slightly depressed, 
glabrous, yellow, the margin at first involute, then spreading, often 
wavy or irregular, flesh white within ; lamelle narrow, thick, distant, 
decurrent, somewhat branched or anastomosing, yellow ; stem firm, 
elabrous, soldd, yellow, sometimes tapering downwards ; spores sub- 
elliptical, .0003 to .0004 in. long, .0002 to .00025 broad. 
Plant 1.5 to 4 in. high, pileus 1.5 to 4 in. broad, stem 3 to 6 lines 
thick. ) 
