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wineglass in shape. Its margin is sometimes wavy or irregular. In 

 color it varies from white to a very pale red or tan color. White speci- 

 mens sometimes have the center slightly darker than the rest. 



The gills are very narrow, being scarcely broader than the thickness 

 of the flesh of the cap. They are closely placed, white and decurrent. 



The stem is nearly cylindric, smooth and stuffed or hollow. It is col- 

 ored like the cap. Often there is a white tomentum or cottony substance 

 at its base. 



The cap varies in size and is 1-2 inches broad ; the stem 1.5-3 inches 

 long and 1-2 lines thick. It may be found from July to October. Its 

 flavor is suggestive of that of the common mushroom. 



Hygrophorus cantharellus Schw. 



CHANTARELLE HYGROPHORUS 



PLATE 76, FIG. 8-20 



Pileus thin, convex, often umbilicate, subglabrous or minutely squamu- 

 lose, orange, red or yellow; lamellae rather broad, distant, arcuate, 

 decurrent, whitish or yellowish, sometimes tinged with red; stem slender, 

 fragile, glabrous, stuffed or hollow, orange, red or yellow ; spores elliptic, 

 .0003-. 0004 of an inch long, .00024 broad. 



Var. roseus. Margin very wavy or lobed, the lobes often crowded or 

 overlapping. 



Var. fiavipes. Pileus red or orange ; stem yellow. 



NdcX.flaviceps. Pileus yellow ; stem yellow, red or orange. 



The chantarelle hygrophorus is a small species, but it sometimes occurs 

 in great abundance. It is closely related to the vermilion hygrophorus, 

 H. miniatus, from which it differs in its decurrent gills and in its 

 usually longer and more fragile stem. The cap is generally red and 

 minutely rough as in the vermilion hygrophorus, but it varies in color, as 

 in that species, through orange to yellow. It is very tender and fragile, 

 and the margin is sometimes excessively lobed, giving an appearance 

 suggestive of a double rose, and therefore it is named variety roseus. 

 The varying color of the cap and stem furnishes the characters of variety 

 f 1 a V i p e s and variety f 1 a v i c e p s . The gills may be slightly or de- 

 cidedly decurrent and may vary from yellowish white to yellow tinged 

 with red. 



The cap is 6-12 lines broad, and the stem 1-3 inches long and about 

 I hne thick. The fungus inhabits a variety of places and may be found 

 on naked damp soil, among fallen leaves, under the shelter of tall ferns 



