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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



Cantharellus aurantiacus. Fr. 



False Chantakklle. 



Phato by C. G. Lloyd. 

 Figure 159. Cantharellus aurantiacus. One-third 

 natural size. Caps orange-yellow. Gills 

 yellow and forked. 



Aurantiacus means orange-yellow. 

 The pileus is fleshy, soft, depressed, 

 downy, the margin strongly incurved 

 when young, in mature plants it is 

 wavy or lobed; color dull yellowish, 

 usually brownish. 



The gills are crowded, straight, 

 dark-orange, branched, with a regu- 

 lar bifurcation. 



The stem is lighter in color than 

 the pileus, solid at first, spongy, 

 stuffed, hollow, unequal, tapering 

 upward, and somewhat curved. 



It is generally labeled poisonous, 

 but some good authorities say it is 

 wholesome. I have never eaten it 

 further than in its raw state. It is 

 easily distinguished from the edible 

 species by its dull orange cap and its 

 orange gills, which are thinner and 

 closer and more regularly forked 

 than those of the Edible Chantarelle. 

 It grows in woods and open places. 

 Found from July to September. 



Cantharellus floccosus. Schixr. 



The Woo i. 1 a' Cant 1 1 ark i.lus. Edible. 



Floccosus means floccose or woolly. 



The pileus at the top is from one to two inches broad, fleshy, elongated funnel- 

 form or trumpet-shape, floccose-squamose, ochraceous-yellow. 



The gills are vein-like, close, much anastomosing above, long decurrent and 

 subparallel below, concolorous. 



The stem is very short, thick, rather deeply rooted. The spores are elliptical, 

 [2.5-15x7.6/*. Peck, 23 Rep., N. Y. 



This plant is funnel-shaped nearly to the base of the stem. Tt is a small 

 plant, never more than four indies high. I found it in 1 [aynes's Hollow, in 

 rather open woods, on mossy hillsides. July and August. 



