50 NATURE STUDY. 
mycoph agists the world over, that it ought not to be excluded 
from even the present brief and unsystematic sketch. This is 
the renowned Chanterelle or 
Cantharellus cibarius (Fig.9.)— 
a favorite and easily recognized 
member of the Agaricaceae or 
gilled mushrooms. Its habitat 
is in shady spruce and hemlock 
woods or among deciduous trees 
in damp weather, where it may 
be found under favorable condi¬ 
tions from June to November, 
though seldom found in large 
quantities. Chanterelles are 
handsome egg-yellow mush¬ 
rooms, somewhat of a funnel 
form with caps of two to four 
inches in diameter, smooth in 
surface and usually of a some¬ 
what unsymmetrical form. In 
the early stages the cap is con¬ 
vex or flat, but later it usually becomes slightly concave. The 
stem is generally rather shorter than the diameter of the cap 
and one quarter to one-half an inch thick and often curved or 
crooked. It is rather lighter in color than the cap and is smooth 
and solid. The flesh is white. It is the gills that are the most 
characteristic part of the plant. They are egg-yellow in color 
like the cap and differ markedly from the gills of the agarics 
which have previously been described in being thick, shallow 
and blunt-edged instead cf thin, deep and membranous and they 
are further characteristic in their manner of branching into and 
connecting with each other causing the gill surface to present a 
wavy and vein-like appearance. The gills, too, continue far 
down upon the stem where they gradually taper away and are 
Anally lost to view. If one remembers its two chief character¬ 
istics, a full, rich yellow color and gills resembling swollen, 
