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In general appearance this fungus resembles Claudopiis nidulans, but is sepa- 

 rated from it by the color of the spores, Pleurohis belonging to the section of white- 

 spored agarics and Claudopus to the rosy-spored species. The plants grow on dead 

 branches or trunks and are gregarious or imbricate. 



Pleurotus serotinus is edible but not particularly good, its chief recommendation 

 being the lateness of its occurrence in the fall, when other more tempting species 

 have disappeared. 



Pleurotus ulmarius {Edible) 



Cap fairly regular, although inclined to excentricity, convex, margin incurved, 

 later plane, horizontal, even, smooth, white or whitish, at disk shades of tan or 

 brown; flesh white, tough; gills broad, rather distant or rounded behind; stem more 

 or less excentric, curved, ascending, firm, solid, elastic, thickened, and tomentose at 

 the base. 



Cap 3 to 5 inches broad, stem 2 to 3 inches long. 



This species occurs abundantly on dead elm branches or trunks or growing from 

 wounds of living trees. Though exhibiting a special fondness for this host, it is not 

 confined to elm trees. It is readily distinguished from Pleurotus ostreatus by the 

 long stem and by the emarginate or rounded gills. It is considered an excellent 

 edible species and occurs abundantly in the fall. 



Cantharellus 



In the genus Cantharellus the cap is fleshy or submembranaceous, continuous 

 with the stem, and has the margin entire, wavy, or lobed. The gills are decurrent, 

 thick, narrow, blunt, fold-like, irregularly forked, and connected by net-like veins. 



Cantharellus aurantiactis. False Chanterelle 



Cap fleshy, soft, somewhat silky, shape variable, convex, plane or infundibuli- 

 form, margin wavy or lobed, inroUed when young, later simply incurved, dull orange 

 or brownish, especially in the center; flesh yellowish; gills rather thin, decurrent, 

 forked, dark orange; stem spongy, fibrous, colored like the cap, larger at the base 

 than at the apex. 



Plant I to 3 inches in height; cap i to 3 inches broad. 



This plant is more slender and the gills are thinner than those of Cantharellus 

 cibarius, from which it can be readily distinguished. The taste is generally mild, 

 but sometimes slightly bitter. Foreign and American mycophagists do not agree in 

 regard to the edibility of the species. It is common on the ground or on very rotten 

 logs. 



Cantharellus cibarius. The Chanterelle (Edible) 



Cap fleshy, thick, smooth, irregularly expanded, sometimes deeply depressed, 

 opaque egg yellow, margin sometimes wavy; flesh white; gills decurrent, thick 

 narrow, branching or irregularly connected, same color as cap; stem short, solid 

 expanding into a cap of the same color. 



