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5. Chanterel Chantarellus (L.) Murrill, N. Am. Fl. 9: 169. 



1910 



I foiind it difficult to believe that this was the same plant I had 

 seen so often in Europe and the eastern United States. It grows 

 much larger, is often compound and proliferous, and the hyme- 

 nium becomes exceedingly complicated as it develops. The flesh is 

 white and mild to the taste, and is very probably edible. Its size 

 and abundance should make it an important article of food if it 

 proves to be as wholesome as the eastern form. 



Seattle, Washington, Murrill 2^4, jd?, 6/y, Zeller i; Corvallis, 

 Oregon, Murrill 1024, Newport, Oregon, Murrill 1026, 1050; 

 Berkeley, California, Harper 5, Stanford University, California, 

 Nohara 59, Searsville Lake, California, McMurphy ^4. 



Tribe LACTARIEAE 



This tribe, containing the genera Russula and Lactaria, will be 

 treated in a separate article by Dr. Gertrude S. Burlingham. 



Tribe AGARICEAE 



Sporophore terrestrial, rarely wood-loving, fleshy through- 

 out, centrally stipitate ; spores white. 

 Lamellae waxy at maturity, translucent or watery in 

 appearance. 



Veil absent; pileus usually bright-colored. i. Hydrocybe. 



Veil present ; pileus rarely bright-colored. 2. Hygrophorus. 



Lamellae not waxy, but having that appearance. 3. Laccaria. 



Lamellae neither waxy nor appearing waxy ; veil 

 present. 



Lamellae adnate. 4. Armillaria. 



Lamellae free. 5. Limacella. 



Sporophore wood-loving, with stipe eccentric, lateral, or 

 wanting; spores white. 

 Lamellae split longitudinally. 6. Hyponevris. 



Lamellae not split. 



Pileus sessile, tough, reviving, with a gelatinous 



vipper stratum. 7. Resupinatus. 



Pileus fleshy, not reviving, context homogeneous. 



Pilet:s dimidiate or resupinate. 8. Geopetalum. 



Pileus stipitate. 



Veil wanting. 9. Crepidopus. 



Veil present. . 10. Pleurotus. 



I. Hydrocybe (Fries) Karst. Hattsv. 233. 1879 



I. Hydrocybe conica (Scop.) Karst. Hattsv. 236. 1879 



Abundant among mosses in open coniferous barrens about 

 Seattle. All stages of color were observed from miniatous or 



