SPECIES OF CRATER BLLDS. 47 



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

 ance to Oantharellus infundibuHfoiinis^ from which it is not readily 

 distinguished except by it- hymenium, which is neither pruinose nor 

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

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

 relle. It is commonly compared with Oantharellus tubceforrnis, 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 oi' the European plant is described as " flocculose," but 

 in our plant it is usually almost glabrous or lmt 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 lind the stem stuffed below and hollow 

 above only. The base o{' the stem is frequently hairy or strigose. 



CantJtarellus lutescens Fr., Merulius lutescens Pers., Merulius 

 xanthopus Pers., Helvetia tubaformis Schseff. and Peztza undulata 

 Bolt, are synonyms of the older works. 



Craterellus Cantbarellus Schw. 



Cbantarelle Craterellus. 



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

 form, 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 ea>spitose, 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 

 sometime- there is a -light 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 Oantharellus cibarius, 

 and consequently the pileus is generally more irregular. It was 

 placed by Schweinitz in the genu- Thelephora, section Cratekf.i.i. 1., 

 whence the -ynonyin Thelephora Oantharellus Schw. In Gr evil lea, 

 vol. 1, p. 147, this name i- given as a synonym of Oraterellus late* 



