92 THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 
yellow. The cap is red and the tubes and flesh are bright yellow 
while the stem is red below and yellow at the top. It is 
well named and easy to distinguish from others. The tubes and 
flesh slowly change to blue when wounded. These two species 
with Boletus suhaiireus were the most striking ones that I found. 
The pale golden Boletus has the cap, tubes and stem all yellow. 
The stem is yellow within and without. It somewhat resembles 
B. Ainericamis, but is stouter, and has smaller tubes of a clearer 
yellow. CantJiarelliis floccasiis called the trumpet chantrelle 
has been described by Professor Peck in his 52nd report. It is 
a most distinguished looking mushroom. It grows in the woods, 
and its rich orange color and the wooly scaly appearance of the 
cap and its trumpet-like shape render it very striking. The cav- 
ity in the centre of the cap extends to the stem. The stem is 
short and there is a variety called vS. brezipes in which the stem is 
shorter still. The specimens I saw were all large, whole plant 
six and seven inches long and four inches across the top. Prof. 
Peck says it is a good edible mushroom, and one would nearly 
furnish a meal. The distinguishing characteristic of the genus 
Cantharelhis is the fold-like nature of the gills, but there is no flue 
dividing line between some genera ; one often merges into anoth- 
er, and we may find a species in which the typical characteristic 
is not clearly defined. Such a case exists in C. umhonatus which 
Stevenson say3 is a rare species. I sent it to Dr. Herbst for de- 
termination. Its color was mouse grey, with shining white gills. 
The cap which was an inch broad was umbonate and then depress- 
ed in the center, the surface silky. The stem was gray and fuUy 
three inches long and the gills were decurrent, quite crowded and 
dichotymous. It grew in moss and looked somewhat like a 
Clitocyhe. 
\\'e found quite a number of Clifocybcs. There was the beau- 
tiful delicate greenish-blue one, C. odora and the white Clitocybe 
C. Candida which Atkinson has described and of which he has 
given two good pictures. It grew on dead trunks of trees in the 
darkest and thickest part of the woods, in large groups and clus- 
ters, by its pure whiteness lightening up the gloomy space around. 
The plants were large, measuring eight inches across, but the 
