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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. 



CANTHAEELLUS AURANT1ACTJS. 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. 



Figure 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. 



