CANTHARELLUS 545 



1799. C. leucophaeus Nouel. Cke. lUus. no. 1064, t. 1111, fig. A. 



\evfcos, white; <f>aio<i, dusky. 



P. 23 cm., dusky brown, submembranaceous, tough, plane, then 

 depressed or inf undibulif orm ; margin incurved, then reflexed. St. 

 34 cm. x 2-4 mm., concolorous, or paler, slightly thickened at the 

 base. Gills white, decurrent, distant, simple, or forked, with inter- 

 mediate shorter ones. Spores white, elliptical, 9 x 5ju,. Woods, and 

 heaths. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1800. C. Houghtonii Phill. Cke. Elus. no. 1060, t. 1107, fig. B. 



Rev. William Houghton. 



P. 2-3 cm., dirty white with a tinge of flesh colour, thin, convex, 

 umbilicate. St. 5 cm. x 2 mm., whitish, thickened at the apex, at 

 first delicately fibrillose, base rooting, cottony. Gills pallid flesh colour, 

 decurrent, narrow, scarcely forked. Spores white, elliptical, 7 x 4jn. 

 On the ground. Oct. 



1801. C. cupulatus Fr. (= Cantharellus helvelloides (Bull.) Quel.) 

 Boud. Icon. t. 71, as Cantharellus helvelloides (Bull.) Quel. 



Cupulatus, pertaining to a little tub or cask. 



P. 10-15 mm., pallid fuscous when moist, becoming pale, somewhat 

 rufescent when dry, membranaceous, plano-infundibuliform (exactly 

 cup-shaped), repand, lobed, flocculose when dry; margin striate. St. 

 2-3 cm. x 3-5 mm., paler than the pileus, expanding into the pileus, 

 tough, pruinose. Gills grey, decurrent, very distant, narrow, branched, 

 with intermediate simple ones. Flesh greyish, becoming white. Spores 

 white, pip-shaped, or elliptical with a lateral basal apiculus, 8-10 x 

 5-6/x,. Open heathy ground and old walls. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 

 1802 C. Stevensonii B. & Br. Cke. Illus. no. 1064, t. 1111, fig. B. 



Rev. John Stevenson, the eminent Scotch mycologist. 



P. 4mm., pallid, orbicular, umbilicate; margin inflexed. St. 6 x 

 1 mm., white, then darker, cylindrical, delicately pulverulent. Gills 

 pallid, becoming fuscous in front, decurrent. On rotten wood amongst 

 moss. March April. Rare. 

 1803. C. replexus Fr. Replexus, bent back. 



P. 1-5 2-5 cm., fuscous, then cinereous, membranaceous, campanu- 

 late, convex, expanded and inverted, striate St. 3-5 cm. x 2 mm., 

 grey, thickened above. Gills white, then glaucous, adnato-decurrent, 

 connected by veins, distant, branched, and dimidiate. On the ground 

 amongst grass, moss, and leaves. Oct. Nov. 



var. devexus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 1098, t. 1150, fig. A. 



Devexus, inclining downwards. 



Differs from the type in the cucullate pileus, and the simple, cinereous 

 gills. Spores white, elliptical, 9-10 x 6/n, 1-guttulate. Burnt ground, 

 and amongst moss on heaths. Nov. Rare, (v.v.) 



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