SPECIES OF CANTHABELLUS. 37 



If of fair size in tin 4 fresh plant it becomes small and inconspicuous 

 in tin* dried specimen. Inconsequence 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 thai our plant is but a variety 

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

 80 that it may Include OUT tonus. I have looked in vain tor a <\i~- 

 Bcription of the Bpore characters o\ this species in any of the Euro- 

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

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

 those oi' the European plant, it will he necessary to keep our plant 

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

 lamelhe often change to a reddish line, and sometimes the lamellae 

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

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

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

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



Kucanthakellus. Lamella rer>/ narrow, thicks vein-like, abun- 

 dantly branching or anastomosing ; pileus narrowly obconic ; stem 

 very short 



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



Cantharellus fioccosus Schw. 

 Floccose Chanterelle. 



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

 scaly, ochraceous-yeUow : lamellffl thick, narrow, close, abun- 

 dantly anastomosing above, long-decurrent and subparallel below, 

 mcolorous : stem very short, thick, sometimes with a flexuous, 

 ro<>t-like prolongation ; spores ochraceous, narrowly elliptical, .0005 

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



olK' end. 



Plant i to 5 in. high, pileus 2 to 4 in. broad, stem \ 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 -rarely 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 i- >ome- 



