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Plant 2 to 4 inches in height; cap 2 to 3 inches broad. 



An agreeable odor of apricots may be observed, especially in the dried plants of 

 this species, but its absence need not be construed as affecting the validity of an 

 identification established by other characters. The chanterelle has long been con- 

 sidered one of the most highly prized edible mushrooms. The remark of a foreign 

 mycologist is recalled that "The chanterelle is included when the most costly 

 dainties are sought for state dinners." It is a common summer species found in 

 open woods and grassy places. 



Lactarius 



The distinguishing feature of the genus Lactarius is the presence of a white or 

 colored milk, especially in the gills. The entire plant is brittle and inclined to 

 rigidity. The fleshy cap is more or less depressed and frequently marked with 

 concentric zones. The gills are often somewhat decurrent, but in certain species 

 are adnate or adnexed, unequal in length, and often forked. The stem is stout, 

 rigid, central, or slightly excentric. 



Lactarius chelidonium (Edible) 



Cap firm, convex and depressed in the center, glabrous, slightly viscid when moist, 

 grayish-yellow or tawny, at length stained bluish or greenish, generally zonate, mar- 

 gin involute at first and naked; gills narrow, crowded, sometimes forked, and some- 

 times joining to form reticulations, adnate or slightly decurrent, saffron yellow to 

 salmon; stem short, nearly equal, hollow, colored like the cap. 



Cap 2 to 2^^ inches broad; stem i to i}^ inches long, about 3'2 inch thick. 



This species is closely related to Lactarius deliciosus, to which in flavor and sub- 

 stance it is scarcely inferior. It is paler than that species and the milk is saffron 

 yellow rather than orange. The plants are fragile and when wounded turn blue, 

 and later green. They are to be found especially in dry localities in the vicinity of 

 pine woods in September and October. 



Lactarius deceptivus (Edible) 



Cap fleshy, convex umbilicate, then expanded and centrally depressed, somewhat 

 infundibuliform, white or whitish, margin at first involute, covered with a dense soft 

 cottony tomentum, filling the space between the margin and the stem, finally spread- 

 ing or elevated and more or less fibrillose; gills whitish or cream-colored, rather 

 broad, distant or subdistant, adnate or decurrent, forking; stem solid, nearly equal, 

 pruinose-pubescent. 



Cap 2^^^ to 53'^ inches broad; stem % inch to 3 inches long. 



Lactarius deceptivus is found in woods and open places from July to September. 

 It is coarse, but fairly good after its peppery taste is lost by cooking. 



Lactarius deliciosus (Edible) 



Cap convex, but depressed in the center when quite young, finally funnel-shaped, 

 smooth, slightly viscid, deep orange, yellowish or grayish-orange, generally zoned. 



