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The next genus Cantharellus differs from the other 

 agarics in having blunt gills, which have the appear- 

 ance of branching veins. It contains one of the best 

 of edible fungi, Cantharellus Cibarius or Chantarelle, 

 which is orange, yellow in color, looking like a patch 

 of sunshine under the spruce trees where it grows. 

 It is solid, irregularly funnel-shaped with a flattened 

 top, which is sometimes slightly depressed in the cen- 

 ter and surrounded by a fluted edge. The first time 

 we found it we placed it in a basket wi£h other speci- 

 mens, a little later one of the party remarked there is 

 something here which smells like apricots. This re- 

 called a description I had read in Gibson's book, and 

 when we returned to the house we had no difficulty 

 in identifying it, and every summer, since making its 

 acquaintance, we have it served at table very, fre- 

 quently. 



Berkely and Cook say of it that it is almost uni- 

 versally eaten in all countries where it is found, Eng- 

 land excepted, where it is only to be met with at the 

 "Freemason's Tavern" on state occasions, when rare 

 dishes are served at great cost, and at the tables of 

 pertinacious mycophagists. 



Tatternnick, a German authority, says " not only 

 this same fungus never did any harm, but might even 

 restore the dead," and Baltarra, another authority, 

 says that "if properly prepared the Chantarelle would 

 arrest the pangs of death." This is rather extravagant 

 praise, but it certainly is a delicious mushroom. 



We find three others of this genus ; Cantharellus 

 fioccosus, of which I have a photograph. It is large 

 and coarse and hardly fit for food. 



^Cantharellus aurantiacus is a smaller plant which 

 might be taken for cibarius. The color of the cap is 

 paler, varied with smoky brown tints. 



Cantharellus brevipes looks like a deformed cibarius. 

 It is short and solid, and seems as if it might be only 

 the stem of another plant. 



Marasmius oreades or the Fairy Ring Mushroom, 

 grows on lawns and pastures where the grass is short. 

 It is small with a buff cap and gills, leathery in sub- 



