18 CIRCULAR 143, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
graphic distribution both in the United States and in Europe. It is a common 
summer species and may be found in grassy places, open or coniferous woods, 
gregarious or subcespitose. 
CANTHARELLUS AURANTIACUS. FALSE CHANTERELLE. (SUSPECTED) 
(Fig. 16) 
In the false chanterelle the cap is fleshy, soft and somewhat silky, and dull 
orange to brownish; the shape is variable, convex, plane, or infundibuliform, 
the margin inrolled when young, later wavy or lobed; the flesh is yellowish; the 
gills are thin, decurrent, regularly forked and dark orange; the stem is spongy, 
fibrous, colored like the cap and larger at the base than at the top. 
The use of this species for food is not to be recommended. 
Ficure 17.—Clitocybe multiceps. (Edible) 
CLITOCYBE 
The white-spored genus Clitocybe contains many species, some of 
which possess definite generic characters that render identification 
easy, while others are extremely difficult to recognize. The cap is 
generally fleshy, later in some species concave to infundibuliform, 
thinner at the margin, which is involute. The gills are adnate or 
decurrent. The stem is externally fibrous, tough, not readily sep- 
arable from the flesh of the cap. The gills are never truly sinuate, a 
character separating Clitocybe from Tricholoma, with which it agrees 
in having a fibrous stem. | 
CLITOCYBE MONADELPHA. (EDIBLE) 
In this species the cap is fleshy, convex, then depressed, at first smooth, later 
scaly, honey colored to pallid brownish or ‘reddish; the gills are short, decur- 
rent, flesh colored; the stem is elongated, twisted, crooked, fibrous, tapering at 
the base, pallid brownish. 
This species bears a resemblance to Armillaria mellea but may be distin- 
guished from it by the absence of a ring and by the decurrent gills. The plants 
are edible, but they soon become water-soaked and uninviting. They grow in 
large clusters in grass or about roots or stumps and are to be found from spring 
until late fall. 
