542 CANTHARELLUS 



*P. and solid st. fleshy. 



1788. C. cibarius Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 1055, t. 1103. 



Cibarius, pertaining to food. 



Entirely egg-yellow. P. 5-10 cm., convex, turbinate, then plane or 

 somewhat depressed, repand; margin often lobed. St. 4-7 x 2-4 cm., 

 attenuated downwards. Gills decurrent, fold-like, thick, distant, 

 branched, often anastomosing. Flesh yellowish, drying whitish, firm. 

 Spores white, elliptical, 10 x 8 p., multi-guttulate ; basidia with 5-6- 

 sterigmata. Smell pleasant, like that of apricots. Taste mild. Edible. 

 Woods. July Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



var. albus Fr. Albus, white. 



Differs from the type in being entirely white, or here and there tinged 

 with pink. Woods. Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. rafipes Gillet. Cke. lUus. no. 1056, t. 1131. 



Rufus, red; pes, foot. 



Differs from the type in the rufous base of the stem. Woods. Sept. 

 Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. ramosus Schulz. Kalchbr. Icon. t. 27, fig. 4. Ramosus, branched. 

 Differs from the type in the branched stem, and in the pileoli be- 

 coming finally infundibuliform. Woods. Sept. Rare, (v.v.) 



1789. C. amethysteus Quel. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. m, t. 12. 



dpeOva-Tos, amethyst. 



P. 5-10 cm., egg-yellow, covered with a lilac down either in zones, or 

 more especially at the margin, fleshy, firm, turbinate, then plane and 

 somewhat depressed ; margin often scalloped. St. 3-4 x 2-5-3 cm., 

 egg-yellow, obconic, attenuated downwards. Gills egg-yellow, vein-like, 

 branched, thick. Flesh white, then yellowish. Spores white, oval, 

 10 x 5-6 p,, filled with granular protoplasm. Smell and taste pleasant. 

 Beech woods. Sept. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1790. C. Friesii Quel. Quel. Jur. et Vosg. i, t. 23, fig. 2. 



Elias Fries, the eminent Swedish mycologist. 

 P. 2-4 cm., orange, soon becoming ochraceous, convex, then de- 

 pressed, thin, villose; margin scalloped. St. 2-4 cm. x 2-4 mm., 

 yellow, pruinose, base white villose. Gills yellow, flesh colour, or orange, 

 decurrent, fold-like, narrow, branched. Flesh white, yellowish under 

 the cuticle. Spores pale ochre in the mass, hyaline under the micro- 

 scope, elliptical, 6-7 x 3-4/n, 1-guttulate. Taste somewhat sour. 

 Edible. Beech woods. Aug. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 

 C. aurantiacus (Wulf .) Fr. = Clitocybe aurantiaca (Wulf .) Studer. 

 C hypnorum Brond. = Clitocybe hypnorum (Brond.) Rea. 



