No esculent species.
Genus 2. CANTHARELLUS.[146]
Bot. Char. These are distinguished from Agarics, which at first sight they resemble, by having veins in place of gills; that is, by having the prolongations of the fibres of the pileus invested in an undivided, in place of a divided hymenium, as occurs in Agarics and in the genus Boletus. These veins are prominent, ramifying, seldom anastomosing; central, eccentric, or wanting; no investments; dust white.
Esculent species: C. cibarius.
[In the next three genera, Merulius, Schizophyllum, and Dædalea, there are no esculent species.]
Genus 6. POLYPORUS.[147]
Bot. Char. Hymenium concrete with the substance of the pileus, consisting of subrotund pores with thin simple dissepiments.
Esculent species: P. frondosus.