SPECIES OF CANTHAREILUS. 4] 
Cantharellus infundibuliformis Scop. 
Funnel-shaped Chantarelle. 
Pileus thin or submembranous, convex and umbilicate, then funnel- 
shaped and often pervious, slightly floccose or fibrillose, uneven, vary- 
ing in color from dingy-yellow to dark watery-brown when moist, 
grayish or grayish-yellow or grayish-brown when dry, the margin 
frequently wavy, irregular or lobed; lamelle narrow, thick, decur- 
rent, distant, irregularly or dichotomously branched, yellow or sub- 
cinereous, becoming prucnose, the interspaces generally venose ; stem 
rather slender, glabrous, hollow, yed/ow ; spores broadly elliptical, 
.00035 to .00045 in. long, .0003 to .00035 in. broad. 
Var. typicus. Pileus dingy-yellow ; stem pale-yellow. 
Var. dudeolus. (Cantharellus lutescens, 23d Rep., p. 122.) Pileus 
convex, umbilicate, dingy-yellow ; lamella very distant, sparingly 
branched, yellowish ; stem yellow, tinged with red or orange. 
Var. zonatus Fr. Pileus zonate. 
Var. subcinereus. Pileus dark watery-brown when moist, gray or 
grayish-brown when dry ; stem yellowish, dingy above. 
Plant gregarious or subceespitose, 1.5 to 4 in. high, ‘pileus 6 to 18 
lines broad, stem 1.5 to 3 lines thick. 
Woods and swamps among moss or fallen leaves and on decayed 
wood. Common. June to October. 
This species is so variable that it seems desirable to designate its 
principal varieties by name. Through variety subcénereus it approaches 
C. cinereus on one hand, and, through variety /uteolus, C. tubceformis 
on the other. Indeed, so closely is it allied to this last-named species 
that the two were united in Systema Mycologicum. But in all our 
forms or varieties the lamellee become frosted or pruinose in appear- 
ance, and this character, according to the descriptions of Professor 
Fries, is a distinguishing feature of C. énfundibuliformis. In the 
description of C. éubeformis, as given in the Handbook, the lamelle 
of it also are said to be “ frosted with a white bloom,” but the dimen- 
sions there ascribed to its stem and spores do not correspond to those 
of any of our specimens. In our plant the pileus of fresh growing 
specimens has a moist or watery appearance, and as the moisture 
evaporates the color becomes paler. The surface of the pileus 
is a little uneven, and the fibrils are so arranged that they give it a 
somewhat streaked or virgate appearance approaching sometimes 
to a subreticulate aspect. Occasionally the pileus is slightly zonate, 
