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larly lobed. The gills are very narrow, stout, distant, more or less 

 sinuous, forked or anastomosing irregularly, and because of the pileus 

 being something like an inverted cone the gills appear to run down 

 on the stem. The spores are faintly yellowish, elliptical, 7-10 //. 

 Figure 126 represents but a single specimen, and this one with a 

 nearly lateral pileus. 



Figure 128. Cantharellus aurantiacus, under view, enlarged nearly twice, showing regularly 



forked gills. 



Cantharellus aurantiacus Fr. This orange cantharellus is very 

 common, and occurs on the ground or on very rotten wood, logs, 

 branches, etc., from summer to very late autumn. It is widely dis- 

 tributed in Europe and America. It is easily known by its dull orange 

 or brownish pileus, yellow gills, which are thin and regularly forked. 



