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Cantharellus cinereus, Fries, Syst. Myc., i. p. 320 ; Cke., 

 Ildbk., p. 341 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 1110A. 



In woods. 



Closely resembling Craterellus cornucopioides, but distin- 

 guished by the distinct gills. 



Cantharellus Houghtoni. Phil. 



Pileus -H in. across, flesh thin, convex, umbilicate, margin 

 often wavy and upturned, smooth, pallid- white ; gills very 

 slightly decurrent, narrow, with a pale pink tinge ; stem 

 H-2 in. long, equal, slightly expanding into the pileus, 

 whitish, at first delicately fibrillose, stuffed ; spores ellip- 

 tical, 7 x 4 p.. 



Cantharellus Houghtoni, Phillips, in Cke.'s Hdbk., p. 341 ; 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 1107s. 



On the ground. 



Pileus 1 in. or more across, dirty- white, with a tinge of 

 flesh-colour ; stem 2 in. high, 1 line thick, stuffed, rooting 

 at the base, which is more or less cottony ; gills scarcely 

 forked, narrow, slightly decurrent. (Cke.) 



Altogether thin and slender, and calling to mind a white, 

 slender Clitocybe. 



Cantharellus leucophaeus. Mouel. 



Pileus about 1 in. across, flesh very thin, pliant, infundi- 

 buliform, glabrous, dusky-brown, margin usually incurved ; 

 gills decurrent, distant, simple or forked, with intermediate 

 shorter ones, narrow, white; stem about 1 in. long, l|-2 

 lines thick, slightly thickened at the base, otherwise equal, 

 stuffed, smooth, paler than the pileus or similar in colour ; 

 spores elliptical, smooth, 9 X 5 /A. 



Cantharellus leucophaeus, Mouel., Mem. Soc. Lille, 1831, t. 

 i. f. 2-3 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 341 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 11 11 A. 



A very neat, regular species, somewhat resembling C. 

 cinereus in colour and habit, but smaller, pileus not pervious 

 at the base, and stem stuffed. 



Cantharellus cupulatus. Fr. 



Pileus ahout in. across, flesh thin, plane then depressed 

 or infundibuliform, often wavy, hygrophanous, pallid-brown 

 or rufescent and with the margin striate when moist, floccu- 



