SPECIES OF CANTHARELLUS. 39 
Woods, copses and open places. Common, June to September. 
The edible Chantarelle, though often irregular in shape, is beauti- 
ful in color. The whole plant is of a clear, rich egg-yellow hue, and 
this, with its solid stem, renders its identification easy. The Ameri- 
an plant scarcely varies in color, but in Europe there is said to be a 
white variety of it. When old, the margin first begins to dry, and 
soon assumes a dull reddish-brown hue. The flesh both of the pileus 
and stem is white, though often tinged with yellow near the surface. 
Some authors attribute to it an odor like that of ripe apricots, but I 
have not been able to detect any decided odor in it. The lamelle 
vary somewhat in their degree of proximity to each other and in 
the extent of their ramification. They are sometimes wavy or 
crisped as in some species of Paxillus. The interspaces are usually 
venose. The length of the stem is generally about equal to the 
breadth of the pileus. It is more frequently curved or flexuous 
than straight, and sometimes it is narrowed downward. The spores 
are described by most authors as white, but if they are collected on 
white paper they have a slight yellowish or salmon-yellow tint. The 
plant grows either in a scattered manner or arranged in curved lines, 
as if attempting to form a “fairy ring.” <A favorite habitat is in 
the deep shade of hemlock trees, but it also grows freely and _plenti- 
fully in thin woods of deciduous trees in damp, showery weather. 
The species is quite celebrated for its edible qualities. Fries says 
that ‘‘it is justly enumerated among the most sapid fungi; ” Bad- 
ham, that ‘‘no fungus is more popular;” Berkeley, that ‘it is 
occasionally served up at public dinners at the principal hotels in 
London on state occasions, when every effort is made to secure the 
rarest and most costly dainties ;”’ Cooke, that ‘ it is alike esteemed 
in France, Germany, Austria and Italy,” and that ‘it is not at all 
uncommon to hear from epicures rapturous encomiums of this golden 
fungus.” According to Badham, ‘it requires to be gently stewed, 
and a long time, to make it tender; but by soaking it in milk the 
night before, less cooking will be requisite.” 
Cantharellus cinnabarinus Schw. 
Cinnabar-colored Chantarelle. 
Pileus fleshy, rather thin, firm, convex, then depressed or subin- 
fundibuliform, often irregular, cénnabar-ved, . the margin at first 
inflexed, often lobed in large specimens, flesh whitish, externally 
tinged with red; lamelle subdistant, branched, decurrent, ec¢nnadar- 
