SPECIES OF CURATERELLUS. 47 
This species corresponds closely in size, color and general appear- 
ance to Cantharellus infundibuliformis, from which it is not readily 
distinguished except by its hymenium, which is neither pruinose nor 
furnished with distinct lamelle, though its vein-like wrinkles some- 
times make a close approach to the narrow lamelle of that Chanta- 
relle. It is commonly compared with Cantharellus tubceformis, with 
which, according to Fries, it was formerly confused, and to which 
it corresponds very closely by reason of its naked yellow hymenium. 
The pileus of the European plant is described as ‘“ flocculose,” but 
in our plant it is usually almost glabrous or but slightly fibrillose. 
The hymenium is sometimes slightly reddish or orange-tinted and the 
stem is colored like it rather than like the pileus. In small or young 
plants it is not uncommon to find the stem stuffed below and hollow 
above only. The base of the stem is frequently hairy or strigose. 
Cantharellus lutescens Fr., Merulius lulescens Pers., Merulius 
xanthopus Pers., Helvella tubeformis Schetf. and Peziza undulata 
Bolt. are synonyms of the older works. 
Craterellus Cantharellus Schw. 
Chantarelle Craterellus. 
Pileus flesby, firm, convex, then centrally depressed or infundibuli- 
form, glabrous, yellow or pinkish-yellow, the margin commonly lobed, 
wavy or irregular, flesh white; hymenium nearly even or rugose- 
wrinkled, yellow ; stem glabrous, solid, yellow ; spores subelliptical, 
-0003 to .0004 in. long, .0002 to .00025 in. broad. 
Plant single or cespitose, 1.5 to 3 in. high, pileus 1.5 to 3 in. 
broad, stem 3 to 5 lines thick. 
Thin woods and bushy places. Sandlake. August. 
So closely does this plant resemble the edible Chantarelle, both 
in size, shape and color, that it would be natural to suppose it a form 
of that species with an undeveloped or abnormally developed hyme- 
nium. Its color is a vitelline or egg-yellow, as in that species, but 
sometimes there is a slight pinkish tinge to the pileus and a faint shade 
of salmon color or orange to the hymenium. The spores also, when 
collected on white paper, have a yellowish or salmon-yellow tint. 
The plant is more frequently ceespitose than Cantharellus cibardus, 
and consequently the pileus is generally more irregular. It was 
placed by Schweinitz in the genus Thelephora, section CRATERELL&®, 
whence the synonym Thelephora Cantharellus Schw. In Grevillea, 
vol. 1, p. 147, this name is given as a synonym of Oraterellus late- 
