=Cantharellus cibarius= Fr. =Edible.=--This plant is known as the _chanterelle_. It has a very wide distribution and has long been regarded as one of the best of the edible mushrooms. Many of the writers on fungi speak of it in terms of high praise. The entire plant is a uniform rich chrome yellow. Sometimes it is symmetrical in form, but usually it is more or less irregular and unsymmetrical in form. The plants are 5--10 cm. high, the cap 4--8 cm. broad, and the stem short and rather thick. [Illustration: PLATE 41, FIGURE 127.--Cantharellus aurantiacus. Color orange yellow, and cap varies ochre, raw sienna, tawny, in different specimens (natural size). Copyright.] The =pileus= is fleshy, rather thick, the margin thick and blunt and at first inrolled. It is convex, becoming expanded or sometimes depressed by the margin of the cap becoming elevated. The margin is often wavy or repand, and in irregular forms it is only produced at one side, or more at one side than at the other, or the cap is irregularly lobed. The =gills= are very narrow, stout, distant, more or less sinuous, forked or anastomosing irregularly, and because of the pileus being something like an inverted cone the gills appear to run down on the stem. The =spores= are faintly yellowish, elliptical, 7--10 µ. Figure 126 represents but a single specimen, and this one with a nearly lateral pileus. [Illustration: FIGURE 128.--Cantharellus aurantiacus, under view, enlarged nearly twice, showing regularly forked gills.] =Cantharellus aurantiacus= Fr.--This orange cantharellus is very common, and occurs on the ground or on very rotten wood, logs, branches, etc., from summer to very late autumn. It is widely distributed in Europe and America. It is easily known by its dull orange or brownish pileus, yellow gills, which are thin and regularly forked, and by the pileus being more or less depressed or funnel-shaped. The plants are from 5--8 cm. high, the cap from 2--7 cm. broad, and the stem about 4--8 mm. in thickness.