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brown glands and white or sometimes tinged with pink at the base. 

 It occurs in the vicinity of pine and hemlock trees during July and 

 August. It is not very common. It has an agreeable flavor, is 

 tender and harmless. 



Cantharellus aurantiacus (Wulf.) Fr. 



ORANGE CHANTARELLE FALSE CHANTARELLE 



Plate 122, figures 8-16 



Pileus fleshy, soft, minutely tomentose, plane or centrally de- 

 pressed, yellowish orange, sometimes tinged with smoky brown or 

 brownish in the center only, flesh whitish or yellowish; lamellae 

 narrow, close, decurrent, repeatedly forked, reddish orange, some- 

 times yellowish orange; stem equal or slightly tapering upward, 

 solid, glabrous, colored like or paler than the pileus ; spores subel- 

 lipsoid, 6-8 /J- long, 4-5 /j. broad. 



The orange chantarelle is sharply separated from the other species 

 by its usually bright orange gills which are regularly and repeatedly 

 forked. The cap varies from 1-3 inches broad and its upper sur- 

 faces may be convex, nearly flat or centrally depressed. It is soft 

 in texture and covered with a minute scarcely visible tomentum. 

 Its color is commonly a pale yellowish orange or tawny orange more 

 or less suffused with a dull smoky tint. Sometimes the center is 

 more distinctly brownish than the margin. The extreme margin is 

 frequently decurved or involute. The flesh is soft, whitish or 

 slightly yellowish. 



The gills are very pretty by reason of their commonly bright 

 orange color and regular forking. 



The stem is 1-3 inches long and 2-5 lines thick. It is solid, equal 

 in diameter throughout its length or sometimes slightly narrowed 

 upward. In color it is generally similar to the cap, though usually 

 paler and sometimes even darker or blackened toward the base. 



There is a rare form in which the cap is white or nearly so. 

 There is also a variety p a 1 1 i d u s Pk. in which both cap and gills 

 are pale yellow or whitish yellow. It occurs in swamps. 



The orange chantarelle occurs most often in woods and unculti- 

 vated places in hilly and mountainous regions from July to Octo- 

 ber. It was formerly reputed poisonous or dangerous and credited 

 with having a disagreeable flavor. In my own experiments with it 

 the flavor has been found to be agreeable and fair trials of eating 

 it have shown it to be perfectly harmless. I therefore have no 

 hesitation in adding it to our list of edible species. 



