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Cantharellus cinereus. Fries, Syst. Myc, i. p. 320 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 341 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 1110a. 



In woods. 



Closely resembling Craterellus cornucopioides, but distin- 

 guished by the distinct gills. 



Cantharellus Houghtoni. Phil. 



Pilens §— I J ia. across, flesh thin, convex, umbilicate, margin 

 often wavy and upturned, smooth, pallid-white ; gills veiy 

 slightly decurrent, narrow, with a pale pink tinge ; stem 

 lJ-2 in. long, equal, slightly expanding into the pilens, 

 whitish, at first delicately fibrillose, stuffed ; spores ellip- 

 tical, 7x4/*. 



Cantharellus Houghtoni, Phillips, in Cke.'s Hdbk., p. 341 ; 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 1107b. 



On the ground. 



Pileus 1 in. or more across, dirty- white, with a tinge of 

 flesh-colour ; stem 2 in. high, 1 line thick, stufi"ed, rooting 

 at the base, which is more or less cottony ; gills scarcely 

 forked, narrow, slightly decurrent. (Cke.) 



Altogether thin and slender, and calling to mind a white, 

 slender Clitocyhe. 



Cantharellus leucophaeus. Mouel. 



Pileus about 1 in. across, flesh very thin, pliant, infundi- 

 buliform, glabrous, dusky-brown, margin usually incurved ; 

 gills decurrent, distant, simple or forked, with intermediate 

 shorter ones, narrow, white; stem about 1 in. long, lJ-2 

 lines thick, slightly thickened at the base, otherwise equal, 

 stuffed, smooth, paler than the pileus or similar in colour ; 

 spores elliptical, smooth, 9 X 5 /x. 



Cantharellus leucophaeus, Mouel., Mem. Soc. Lille, 1831, t. 

 i. f. 2-3 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 341 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 1111a. 



A very neat, regular species, somewhat resembling G. 

 cinereus in colour and habit, but smaller, pileus not pervious 

 at the base, and stem stuffed. 



Cantharellus cupulatus. Fr. 

 Pileus about ^ in. across, flesh thin, plane then depressed 

 or infundibuliform, often wavy, hygrophanous, pallid-brown 

 or rufescent and with the margin striate when moist, floocu- 



