MYCOLOGIA 



Vol. IX September, 1917 No. 5 



ILLUSTRATIONS OF FUNGI— XXVII 



William A. Murrill 



The accompanying plate shows several species of white-spored 

 gill-fungi painted by Miss Eaton in their natural colors from speci- 

 mens collected in or near New York City. 



Pileus fleshy, firm, turbinate, nearly plane, sometimes depressed, 

 gregarious, cespitose at times, 3-8 cm. broad ; surface glabrous, 

 luteous, rarely paler yellow, margin involute to expanded, undu- 

 late ; context white, nutty or slightly acrid, edible ; lamellae thick, 

 narrow, distant, decurrent, forked or irregularly anastomosing, 

 luteous, or sometimes much paler; spores ellipsoid, somewhat 

 irregular, smooth, pale-ochraceous, 8-10X4-5^; stipe attenuate 

 below, glabrous, concolorous or paler, solid, 2.5-5 cm - l° n g> 6-12 

 mm. thick. 



Common throughout temperate regions in deciduous or conifer- 

 ous woods, especially in dense evergreen thickets, appearing in 

 mid-summer. It is egg-yellow all over, and has peculiar narrow, 

 blunt, decurrent lamellae. This species has long held a high rep- 

 utation for edibility, and the only poisonous species with which 

 it may be easily confused is Chanterel aurantiacus. It should be 



[Mycologia for July (9: 185-256) was issued July 30, 1917.] 



Chanterel Chantarellus (L.) Murrill 



Cantharellus cibarius Fries 



Edible Chanterel 



Plate 11. Figure 1. X 1 



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