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This species corresponds closely in size, color and general appear- 

 ance to Cantharellus infundibuliformis, from which it is not readily 

 distinguished except by its hymenium, which is neither pruinose nor 

 furnished with distinct lamellaB, though its vein-like wrinkles some- 

 times make a close approach to the narrow lamellae of that Chanta- 

 relle. It is commonly compared with Cantharellus tubceformis, with 

 which, according to Fries, it was formerly confused, and to which 

 it corresponds very closely by reason of its naked yellow hymenium. 

 The pileus of the European plant is described as " flocculose," but 

 in our plant it is usually almost glabrous or but slightly fibrillose. 

 The hymenium is sometimes slightly reddish or orange-tinted and the 

 stem is colored like it rather than like the pileus. In small or young 

 plants it is not uncommon to find the stem stuffed below and hollow 

 above only. The base of the stem is frequently hairy or strigose. 



Cantharellus lutescens Fr., Merulius lutescens Pers., Merulius 

 xanthopus Pers., Helvetia tubceformis Seine ff. and Peziza undulata 

 Bolt, are synonyms of the older works. 



Craterellus Cantharellus Schw. 

 Chantarelle Craterellus. 



Pileus fleshy, firm, convex, then centrally depressed or infundibuli- 

 fonn, glabrous, yellow or pinkish-yellow, the margin commonly lobed, 

 wavy or irregular, flesh white ; hymenium nearly even or rugose- 

 wrinkled, yellow ; stem glabrous, solid, yellow ; spores subelliptical, 

 .0003 to .0004 in. long, .0002 to .00025 in. broad. 



Plant single or caespitose, 1.5 to 3 in. high, pileus 1.5 to 3 in. 

 broad, stem 3 to 5 lines thick. 



Thin woods and bushy places. Sand lake. August. 



So closely does this plant resemble the edible Chantarelle, both 

 in size, shape and color, that it would be natural to suppose it a form 

 of that species with an undeveloped or abnormally developed hyme- 

 nium. Its color is a vitelline or egg-yellow, as in that species, but 

 sometimes there is a slight pinkish tinge to the pileus and a faint shade 

 of salmon color or orange to the hymenium. The spores also, when 

 collected on white paper, have a yellowish or salmon-yellow tint. 

 The plant is more frequently caespitose than Cantharellus cibarius, 

 and consequently the pileus is generally more irregular. It was 

 placed by Schweinitz in the genus Thelephora, section Craterell,e, 

 whence the synonym Thelephora Cantharellus Schw. In Grevillea, 

 vol. 1, p. 147, this name is given as a synonym of Craterellus late- 



