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PLATE 1.
Canthareli.us kadiooscs, B. & Br.
B. & Br. Ann. N. H . (1866), no. 1134. Alb. & Schw. Consp. Fung. 1134.
Cooke, Handbook, p. 339.
Caxtharelllus stipidbus subcEespitosis, farctis; pileo exumbonato, aspere,
floccoso; lamellis conferds, candidis, baud dichotorais; carne liaud deco-
lorante.
MeruVms carhonarius. Alb. & Schw. 1. c.
Cantharellus umbonatiis, var., F r. Hym. Mon. vol. ii. p. 207 ; E pic r. p. 365.
Pilcus three-fourths to one inch across, deeply umbilicate, dark brown,
or black, rough, with radiating flo c c i; stem rooting, deeply p a llid ; gills
narrow, white. Two or three pilei often grow from th e same obconical
root, which is white and spongy.—B . d B r.
Pileus subfleshy, striato-scaly, umbilicate, h a lf an inch to an inch
broad, a t length b la c k ; gills (or folds) somewhat contracted, white,
descending into th e stem, of precisely th e same nature as th e folds in
C. atirantiacus, F r., and C. umhonatus, P., except th a t th ey are not
d ich o tom o u s; stem rooting, clustered, ascending, often pruinose towards
th e apex, h a lf an inch long, somewhat hollow, and full of chambers, somewhat
thickened b e low ; roots subfusiform, white, h a lf to one inch long,
coalescing into one substance, from which capituliform branches proceed,
formed by th e union of from te n to twenty individuals.
T h is species comes ne a r to C. umhonatus, P., from which however it
sufficiently differs in th e folds n o t being dichotomous, and only simply
b ra n c h e d ; th e umbo entirely a b s e n t; th e p lan t n o t becoming discoloured
when broken ; and in its mode of growth and habitat.
H a b ita t evei-ywhere on cinder-heaps (“ carhonaria.”)—Alb. d Sch.
T h e specimens figured were found on ashes and b u rn t ground, by
various members of th e Flolmsdale N a tu ra l H isto ry Club, during an
excursion of th e Club to Gomshall, Surrey, on September 35, 1869. Soon
after th is date the p lan t appeared in great abundance on b u rn t places in
E p p in g F o re st, and in similar situations n ear Hereford, and Wellington in
Shropshire. I t h as since been detected in many localities, often growing
in company with Agaricus atratus, F r., a p lan t which it so closely resembles
th a t it is impossible to distinguish one from th e o ther till th ey are
gathered.
Some of th e specimens found in E p p in g F o re s t and elsewhere were
much larger th a n any of those figured upon th e Plate.
P la te 1.—Figs. 1, 3, 3, 4, 5, Cantharellus radicosus, B. & Br. Fig. 6, section
of ditto. Fig. 7, spores,-00035" x -0002."—IF. (?. S.
■W. G. Smith, del. et lith. VmcentBrook^.Day&Son.Imp
(jantiiarellus rad ico cu s.B &Br.
(“ C. carbonaTlus, A & S. n o n Fries.)