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Mushroom, but it should be cooked almost as soon as it is gathered. One 

 characteristic is not found in any other esculent species, that it may be 

 collected amongst bricks and mortar. We have often taken a basket and 

 collected sufficient for the breakfast of a family from waste ground on 

 which the builders were at work, so that it may be called the fungus of 

 civilisation, or even recognised as the mark of the jerry builder's foot. 



Fig. 156. — Caxtharellus cibaiuus. (Gardeners' Chronicle.) 



(14) Chantakelle : Cantharellus cibarius (Fries). 



This brilliant golden yellow fungus has been praised, as we think, far 

 beyond its merits, since we never regarded it as a favourite. Nevertheless 

 we have authority for stating that in former times it has been served at 

 dinners on state occasions, and an old writer has declared that it would 

 arrest the pangs of death. It is rather a small species, usually not 



