(408 ) 
Type, Cantharellus cibarius Fries. (Syll. 5: 482.) 
These are the typical chanterelles. It is unfortunate that 
the familiar generic name of Canthare/lus is antedated. 
8. ASTEROPHORA Ditmar, in Link, Jour. Bot. Schrad. 
3: 17. 1809. 
Nyctalis Fries (metonym). 1825. Type, 1V. parasitica 
(Bull.) Fries. (Syll. 5: 502.) 
Sphaeropus Paulet (typonym). 1835. 
Putrescent, usually parasitic: pileus fleshy, convex or de- 
pressed, bearing conidia: hymenium covering lamella-like 
folds, simple, not forked; spores white or hyaline: veil none: 
stipe central, fleshy. 
Type, Vyctalis asterophora Fries. (Syll. 5: 501.) 
Tribe I. LacTariEAE 
Hymenium covering true lamellae. Cells of the sporocarp 
in part swollen, vesicular: spores white or yellow. 
9. HYPOPHYLLUM Paulet, Ic. 11. 1793-1812. 
Lactartella Schrot., Krypt. Fl. Schles. 3': 544 (metonym). 
1889. Type, Lactarius fuliginosus Fries. (Syll.5: 446.) 
Putrescent: cells of the sporocarp vesicular, lactiferous : 
pileus fleshy, convex or depressed, viscid, pruinose or squam- 
ulose: lamellae adnate or decurrent, becoming darker and 
pruinose with age: spores white or yellowish, usually globose, 
echinulate: veil none: stipe central, fleshy. 
Type, Lactarius rufus Fries. (Syll. §: 442.) 
The genus as here defined is practically equivalent to 
Lactarius, Tribe 3, Aussularra, of the Sylloge. To make 
the treatment fully consistent the viscid species should per- 
haps be separated from the dry squamulose ones. The 
slightly yellowish color of the spores in some of the species 
hardly seems a character of generic importance. 
10. LACTARIA Pers. Tent. Disp. Fung. 63. 1797. 
Lactifiuus Roussel (typonym). 1806. 
Lactarius S. F. Gray (typonym). 1821. 
