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separable, viscid pellicle, which is at first flesh-colour, then Russula. 

 presently changing colour, becoming yellow at the disc and at 

 length wholly yellow, margin even, then slightly striate. Stem 

 as much as 7.5 cent. (3 in.) long, but thin, somewhat hollow, 

 slightly striate, white. Gills more or less adnexed, thin, crowded, 

 equal, narrow, somewhat forked, light-yellow-ochraceous. 



Mild, inodorous, very fragile. Pileus rosy-blood-red, purplish lilac, &c. 

 Sometimes even at the first yellowish at the disc. 



In woods. Rare. Sept. 



Name from its changing colours like the chamceleon. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 

 204. Hym. Eur. p. 455. B. & Br. n. 1014. C. Hbk. n. 640. S. Mycol. Scot, 

 n. 613. 



GENUS XL Oantharellus Adans. (ndveapos, a vase or cup.) Camhar- 

 Fr. Syst. Myc. i. p. 316. ellus - 



Hymenophore continuous with the stem, descending un- 

 changed into the trama. Gills thick, fleshy-waxy, fold-like, 

 somewhat branched, obtuse at the 

 edge. Spores white. Fleshy, mem- 



branaceous, putrescent fungi, without \ f/ 



a veil. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 455. 



The distinguishing character of 

 the genus consists in the fold-like 

 gills. The Mesopodes commonly 

 grow on the ground ; the rest com- 

 monly on mosses, very rarely on 

 wood. Intermediate between Aga- 

 ricus and Craterellus. Some are 

 edible, others reckoned poisonous. 



I. MESOPUS (MCO-OS, middle ; TTOV?, a foot). 

 Pileus entire. Stem central. 



* Pileus and solid stem fleshy. LI. Cantharellus cibarius. One- 



** Pileus somewhat membranaceous, stem third natural size. 



tubular and polished. 



II. MERISMA (/uepi'fw, to divide). Stems very numerous, united into an 

 elongated column or branched. 



III. PLEUROPUS (TrAevpdv, the side; irov's, a foot). Dimidiate, stem exactly 

 lateral. 



IV. RESUPINATUS (resupinatus, lying on the back). Pileus entire, at first 

 cup-shaped, adfixed by the vertex, then somewhat reflexed. 



* Bryophili (moss-loving). 



** Lignatiles (growing on wood), doubtful species. 



