Order Hymenomycetes Tribe Pileati  

Craterellus cornucopioides Fr.  

Name—cornucoprae, horn of plenty  

Species Characters. C. cornucopioides. The pileus of this fungus is as its name implies, shaped like a cornucopia or trumpet, permeable, gray, black or umber color, rugose, margin sometimes lobed, often irregularly waved, & even split, tough. The hymenium is decurrent, variously colored, umber bluish black, & in the matured plant frequently pallid from the white spores, marked with veins, & rugose, but by no means plicate. Spores 0.00032??0.00048. white. This plant is caespitose, though I have found some of the most perfect in shape, growing separately. Its general habit however is clusters, often assuming the appearance of large tufts of black ribbon drawn together in ruffles. It is seldom if ever disturbed by insects, keeps well dried, & can be restored to its perfect shape by laying a short time in water. Found in woods. Druid Hill Park, also near Lutherville near Baltimore, Maryland, 1878. Spore measure in “Cooke’s Hand-book” 0.0006 × 0.00035 inch. The spores in my plant were very large, as seen in the above drawing.