SPECIES OF CRATERELLCS. 47 



This species corresponds closely in size, color and general apjjcar- 

 aiice to Cantfiarellus infundibuliformis, from which it is not readily 

 distinguished except by its hymenium, which is neither pruinose nor 

 furnished with distinct lamellte, though its vein-like wrinkles some- 

 times make a close approach to the narrow lamellse of that Chanta- 

 relle. It is commonly compared with Cantharellus tubcieformis, with 

 which, according to Fries, it was formerly confused, and to which 

 it corresponds very closely by reason of its naked yellow hymenium. 

 The pileus of the European plant is described as " flocculose," but 

 in our plant it is usually almost glabrous or but slightly fibrillose. 

 The hymenium is sometimes slightly reddish or orange-tinted and the 

 stem is colored like it rather than like the pileus. In small or young 

 plants it is not uncommon to find the stem stuffed below and hollow 

 above only. The base of the stem is frequently hairy or strigose. 



CanOiarellus lutescens Fr., MeruUus Iidescens Pers., Merulius 

 xanthopus Pers., Helvdla tuboefonnis Scha^ti'. and Paziza undulala 

 Bolt, are synonyms of the older works. 



Craterellus Cantharellus Schw. 

 Chantai-elle Craterellus. 



Pileus fleshy, firm, convex, then centrally dejji^essed or infandibuli- 

 form, glabrous, yellow or pinkish-yellow, the margin commonly lobed, 

 wavy or irregular, flesh white ; hymenium nearly even or rugose- 

 wrinkled, 7/e/?oz^ ; stem glabrous, solid, yellow; spores sul)elliptical, 

 .0003 to .0004 in. long, .0002 to .00025 in. broad. 



Plant single or ctespitose, 1.5 to 3 in. high, pileus 1.5 to 3 in. 

 broad, stem 3 to 5 lines thick. 



Thin woods and bushy places. Sand lake. August. 



So closely does this plant resemble the edible Chantarelle, both 

 in size, shape and color, that it would be natural to sup})ose it a form 

 of that species with an undeveloped or abnormally develo[)ed hyme- 

 nium. Its color is a vitelline or egg-yellow, as in that species, l)ut 

 sometimes there is a slight pinkish tinge to the pileus and a faint shade 

 of salmon color or orange to the hymenium. The spores also, when 

 collected on white paper, have a yellowish or salmon-yellow tint. 

 The plant is more frequently ca}S[)itose than Cantharellus cibarias, 

 and consequently the pileus is generally more irregular. It wjis 

 ])laced by Schweinitz in the genus Thelephora, section Craterell^, 

 whence the synonym Thelephora Cantharellus Schw. In Grevillea, 

 rol. 1, p. 147, this name is given as a synon3m of Craterellus late- 



