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The cinnabar Chantarelle is readily recognized by its color. . It is 

 externally red in all its parts, the interior only being white. It is a small 

 species but often quite irregular in shape. Small specimens are more 

 likely to be regular than large ones. Sometimes the cap is more fully 

 developed on one side than on the other. This makes the stem eccen- 

 tric or in some cases almost lateral. The color is quite constant, but in 

 some instances it is paler and approaches a pinkish hue. It is apt to fade 

 or even disappear in dried specimens. The gills are blunt on the edge 

 as in other species of this genus. They are forked or branched, narrow 

 and decurrent. 



The stem is small, smooth and usually rather short. It is generally 

 solid, but in the original description it is characterized as stuffed. The 

 cap is 8 to i8 lines broad; the stem 6 to 12 lines long and i to 3 

 broad. It grows gregariously in thin woods and open places and may 

 be found from July to September. It sometimes occurs in great abun- 

 dance, which adds to its importance as an edible species. The fresh 

 plant has a tardily and slightly acrid flavor, but this disappears in cook- 

 ing. In Epicrisis, Fries referred this species to the genus Hygrophorus, 

 and in Sylloge also it is placed in that genus, but it is a true Cantharellus 

 and belongs in the genus in which Schweinitz placed it. 



Cantharellus floccosus Schw, 

 Floccose Chantarelle 



PLATE 60 fig. 10-14 



Pileus firm, rather thin, elongated funnel form or trumpet shaped, 

 deeply excavated, floccose squamulose, yellowish or subochraceous; lam- 

 ellae thick, narrow, close, repeatedly forked branched or anastomosing, 

 very decurrent, ochraceous yellow; stem short; spores ochraceous, ellip- 

 tic, .0005 to ,0006 in. long, .0003 broad, with an oblique apiculus at one 

 end and usually uninucleate. 



The floccose Chantarelle is a large and very distinct species. There 

 is nothing with which it can easily be confused. When young it is nar- 

 rowly club shaped or almost cylindric, but by the expansion of the upper 

 part it soon becomes trumpet shape. The cavity extends even into the 

 stem. The surface of the cap is somewhat floccose or scaly, but the 

 scales may be thick and persistent or thin and evanescent. The color is 

 yellowish inclining to ochraceous, but the inner flesh is white. The flesh 

 is so thin that the weight of the whole plant is less than might be 

 expected, judging from the size. 



