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(Plate CCI.) 



It grows gregariously in thin woods and open places, and may be found 

 from July to September. It sometimes occurs in great abundance, 

 which adds to its importance as an edible species. The fresh plant has 

 a tardily and slightly acrid flavor, but this disappears in cooking. In 

 Epicrisis, Fries referred this species to the genus Hygrophorus, and in 

 Sylloge also it is placed in that genus, but it is a true Cantharellus and 

 belongs in the genus in which Schweinitz placed it. Peck, 



CantharellllS dicllOtomilS Pk. Rep., 1902:46. (Original descrip- 

 tion Rep. 23: 123. 1872.) PileilS fleshy, soft and flexible, subconic 

 when young, with the margin involute and downy or flocculent, convex, 

 nearly plane or centrally depressed when ma- 

 ture, even or with a small pointed umbo, dry, 

 glabrous, variable in color. Flesh white, taste 

 Lamellae narrow, close, dichotomous, 



mild. 



decurrent, white or yellowish. Stem equal or 

 tapering upward, solid, glabrous or slightly 

 fibrillose. Spores narrowly elliptic, .0003 

 .0004 of an inch long, .00016 broad. 



Pileus 6-18 lines broad; stem 13 inches 

 long, 24 lines thick. 



This dichotomous chantarelle is a small but 

 common species in our hilly and mountainous 

 districts. It grows in woods among mosses or 

 in pastures and bushy places among grasses 

 and fallen leaves. It is gregarious and ap- 

 pears from July to September. 



The cap is generally broadly convex with 

 decurved margin, but sometimes it becomes centrally depressed by the 

 elevation of the margin. The umbo is small and usually acute, or 

 papillalike, but it is often entirely absent. The margin is involute and 

 minutely flocculent or downy when young, but it soon becomes naked. 

 The surface is smooth or obscurely silky and occasionally becomes min- 

 utely rimose areolate. The color is very variable and may be grayish 

 white, grayish brown, yellowish brown, blackish brown or bluish gray. 

 The gills are narrow, thin, close, decurrent and 1-3 times forked. They 

 are white or whitish sometimes tinged with yellow. In moist weather 

 wounds on gills and stem sometimes become reddish. The stem is equal 



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