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In Leptocantharellus the pileus is fleshy but thiu, and floccose, 

 iil)nllose or pruinose. It is umbilicate, centrally depressed or funnel- 

 shaped and sometimes pervious. The lamellae are mostly sparingly 

 branched, and the slender stem is generally hollow. The last three 

 o-roups contain species which have their respective counterparts or 

 corresponding species in the genus Craterellus. 



In the diagnosis of the genus which I have quoted the spores are 

 said to be white, but in some of our species they vary considerably 

 from this color. 



The name of the srenus is derived from canthariis. a kind of drink - 



nig cup. 



S^/nojjsis of the Species. 



1 Lamellae thin, regularly and repeatedly dichotomous. 2. 



2 Lamellse orang-e-coloj-ed. C. aurantiacas. 



2 Lamellae white- C. umbonatus. 

 1 Lamellse thick, simple or irregulai-ly branched. 3. 



3 Stem very short, hairy or subtomentose. 4. 



4 Pileus floccose-scaly. C. floccosus. 



4 Pileus glabrous. C. brevipes. 

 3 Stem longer, glabi-ous. 5. 



.5 Pileus glabrous, yellow. 6. 



6. Pileus thick, stem solid. C. cibarius. 



6 Pileus thin, stem stiiffed or hollow. C. minor. 



5 Pileus glabrous, cinnabar-red. C. cinnal)arinu3. 

 5 Pileus not glabrous. 7. 



7 Floccose or fibi-illose. 8. 



8 Dingy-yellow or bi-ownish. C. infundibuliformis. 



8 Dingy-cinereous or blackish-cinereous. C. cinereus. 



7 Pruinose. C. pruiuosus. 



Agauicoides. Lamellce thin, close, regularly dichotomoiis. 



Cautharellus aurantiacus Wulf. 

 Orange Chantarelle. False Chantarelle. 



Pileus fleshy, thick, soft, mimitely tomentose, plane or slightly 

 depressed, ijellowkh-oro.nge, often tinged with snioky-l)rown, the mar- 

 gin dccin-ved or involute, flesh whitish or yellowish ; lanielhe narrow, 

 close. rc[)eatedly forked, decurrent. brigJd-orange, sometimes yellow- 

 ish ; stem equal or slightly tapering upward, solid, subconcolorous ; 

 spores subelliptical, .00025 to .0003 in. long, .00010 to .00018 broad. 



Plant 2 to 3 in. high, pileus 1 to 3 in. broad, stem 2 to 5 lines thick. 



Ground and much decayed wood. Common in hilly a'.ul moun- 

 tainous districts. Julv to October. 



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