SPECIES OF CANTHARELLVS. 37 



If of fair size in the fresh plant it becomes small and inconspicuous 

 in the dried specimen. In consequence of this disagreement between 

 the American plant and the descriptions of the European, the former 

 was supposed to be distinct, and described in the Twenty-third Re- 

 port as Cantharellus dichotomus ; but from its close agreement in 

 other respects I am now of the opinion that our plant is but a variety 

 of the European, and I have modified the description of the species 

 so that it may include our forms. I have looked in vain for a de- 

 scription of the spore characters of this species in any of the Euro- 

 pean works at my command. These characters here given are taken 

 from the American plant. Should they be found to differ from 

 those of the European plant, it will be necessary to keep our plant 

 distinct. In ours, as in the European, wounds of the flesh and 

 lamellae often change to a reddish hue, and sometimes the lamellae 

 assume this color in drying. When growing among mosses the stem 

 is often considerably elongated, and the white tomentum at its base 

 so closely invests the surrounding mosses that it is difficult to pluck 

 the plant entire without taking with it a tuft of moss. 



Eucantharellus. Lamellae very narrow, thick, vein-like, abun- 

 dantly brandling or anastomosing ; pileus narrowly ohconic ; stein 

 very short. 



The species of this section appear thus far to be peculiar to America. 



Cantharellus floccosus Schw. 

 Floccose Chantarelle. 



Pileus fleshy, firm, elongated funnel-form or trumpet shape, floc- 

 cose-scaly, ochraceous-yelloiv : lamellae thick, narrow, close, abun- 

 dantly anastomosing above, long-decurrent and subparallel below, 

 subconcolorous ; stem very short, thick, sometimes with a flexuous, 

 root-like prolongation ; spores ochraceous, narrowly elliptical, .0005 

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

 one end. 



Plant 2 to 5 in. high, pileus 2 to 4 in. broad, stem 4 to 8 lines 

 thick. 



Woods and their borders. Common. July and August. 



This is our largest species of Chantarelle. At first the plant is 

 almost cylindrical, it being scarcely broader at the top than at the 

 base ; but it gradually expands above and spreads its margin until it 

 becomes trumpet-shaped. The pileus of the young plant is some- 



