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  BULLETIN 
  N. 
  Y. 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM. 
  

  

  The 
  bright 
  color 
  and 
  regular 
  bifurcations 
  of 
  the 
  lamellae 
  render 
  this 
  

   a 
  beautiful 
  and 
  easily 
  recognizable 
  species. 
  The 
  pileus 
  is 
  somewhat 
  

   obconic 
  in 
  outline, 
  but 
  it 
  is 
  subject 
  to 
  some 
  variation 
  in 
  color. 
  The 
  

   disk 
  is 
  often 
  tinged 
  with 
  brown 
  or 
  smoky-brown 
  and 
  sometimes 
  the 
  

   whole 
  surface 
  fades 
  to 
  a 
  dingy 
  buff-red. 
  The 
  margin 
  is 
  sometimes 
  

   a 
  pale 
  yellow 
  or 
  even 
  whitish, 
  and 
  a 
  form 
  with 
  whitish 
  lamellae 
  has 
  

   occurred 
  in 
  a 
  sphagnous 
  marsh 
  near 
  Albany. 
  In 
  the 
  European 
  plant 
  

   the 
  stem 
  is 
  said 
  occasionally 
  to 
  become 
  black. 
  This 
  form 
  is 
  MeruUus 
  

   nigripes 
  Pers. 
  The 
  wholly 
  white 
  European 
  form 
  has 
  not 
  been 
  found 
  

   here. 
  

  

  The 
  species 
  is 
  pronounced 
  "poisonous" 
  by 
  some 
  authors, 
  and 
  

   "scarcely 
  esculent" 
  by 
  Rev. 
  M. 
  J. 
  Berkeley. 
  It 
  is 
  especially 
  fond 
  

   of 
  a 
  damp 
  mossy 
  soil 
  filled 
  with 
  vegetable 
  mold, 
  and 
  it 
  sometimes 
  

   occurs 
  quite 
  late 
  in 
  the 
  season. 
  

  

  Cantharellus 
  unibonatus 
  Fr. 
  

  

  Umbonate 
  Chantarelle. 
  

  

  Pileus 
  thin, 
  soft, 
  at 
  first 
  convex, 
  then 
  plane 
  or 
  centrally 
  depressed, 
  

   umbonate, 
  papillate 
  or 
  even, 
  smooth 
  or 
  flocculose-silky, 
  rarely 
  mi- 
  

   nutely 
  squamulose, 
  bluish-cinereous, 
  grayish-brown 
  or 
  blackish-cin- 
  

   ereous, 
  the 
  flesh 
  white 
  ; 
  lamellae 
  thin, 
  straight, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  decur- 
  

   rent, 
  dichotoinous, 
  white 
  : 
  stem 
  equal 
  or 
  slightly 
  tapering 
  upward, 
  

   solid 
  or 
  stuffed, 
  generally 
  slightly 
  silky, 
  villose 
  or 
  white-tomentose 
  

   at 
  the 
  base, 
  whitish 
  or 
  tinged 
  with 
  the 
  color 
  of 
  the 
  pileus 
  ; 
  spores 
  

   white, 
  oblong 
  or 
  subfusiform, 
  .0004 
  to 
  .0005 
  in. 
  long, 
  .00016 
  to 
  

   .0002 
  broad. 
  

  

  Plant 
  1 
  to 
  6 
  in. 
  high, 
  pileus 
  6 
  to 
  12 
  lines 
  broad, 
  stem 
  2 
  to 
  4 
  lines 
  

   thick. 
  

  

  Damp, 
  mossy 
  ground 
  in 
  woods 
  and 
  open 
  places. 
  North 
  Elba, 
  

   Catskill 
  mountains 
  and 
  Karner. 
  August 
  to 
  October. 
  

  

  Var. 
  subcceruleus. 
  Pileus 
  bluish 
  or 
  bluish-gray, 
  silky 
  and 
  shining. 
  

  

  Var. 
  dicJiotomus. 
  Pileus 
  even 
  or 
  the 
  umbo 
  reduced 
  to 
  a 
  mere 
  

   papilla, 
  grayish-brown. 
  

  

  Var. 
  brevior. 
  Pileus 
  as 
  in 
  variety 
  dichotomus, 
  but 
  the 
  stem 
  very 
  

   short, 
  about 
  1 
  inch 
  long, 
  equal 
  and 
  scarcely 
  silky. 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  a 
  variable 
  species. 
  All 
  the 
  descriptions 
  of 
  the 
  European 
  

   plant 
  which 
  have 
  come 
  under 
  my 
  notice 
  speak 
  of 
  it 
  as 
  umbonate, 
  

   and 
  some 
  emphasize 
  this 
  character 
  and 
  describe 
  it 
  as 
  "always 
  per- 
  

   sistent," 
  " 
  unchanged," 
  etc. 
  In 
  the 
  American 
  plant 
  it 
  is 
  often 
  en- 
  

   tirely 
  absent, 
  and 
  when 
  present 
  it 
  is 
  generally 
  a 
  mere 
  acute 
  papilla. 
  

  

  