[Vol. 11 

 14 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



priority of Persoon's publication of Solenia is clearly established 

 by Hoffmann's own work, for on the page of text following plate 

 8 he gives the full title of Persoon's work and its place of publi- 

 cation. 



Key to the Species 



Spores white 1 



Spores colored U.S. endophila 



1. Fructifications white or but sHghtly cream-colored 2. 



1. Fructifications colored 3. 



2. Fructifications white, scattered, cylindric, mouth not contracted; spores 



subglobose 1. S. Candida 



2. Fructifications white, fasciculate, mouth contracted; spores subglobose 



2. S. fasciculata 



2. Fructifications straw-color or shining white; in California..../;?. S. gradlia 

 2. Fructifications white, crowded, confluent into a reticulate form; spores 



4^^-5 X 4-4^^ M 3. S. polyporoidea 



2. Fructifications densely crowded, slightly tinted with cream; spores 



4-6 X 2-3 M 4. S. conferta 



2. Fructifications white, cylindric, villose; in Sweden 13. S. villosa 



3. Fructifications ochraceous; spores 10-11 X 43^ fi; on stems of 



ferns 5. S. filicina 



3. Fructifications sulphur-colored; spores subglobose. . . .6. S. sulphurea 

 3. Fructifications some shade of brown; spores 6-11 X 1M-43^m 



7. S. anomala 



3. Fructifications palUd neutral gray, cylindric-clavate or pyriform; 



spores 9 X 5H Mj in California 8. S. cinerea 



3. Fructifications cinereous, cup-shaped, sessile; spores 4^-6/^ X 



43^-5 /i 9. S. poriaeformia 



3. Fructifications partially buried in the subiculum; spores 5-6 X 



3 Ai; in Venezuela .10. S. subporiaeformu 



1. Solenia Candida Persoon, Roemer Neues Mag. Bot. 1: 

 116. 1794; Syn. Fung. 676. 1801 ;Myc. Eur. 1:334. 1822;Hoff- 

 mann, Deutschl. Fl. 2 : pi 8,f.l. 1795 ; Fries, Syst. Myc. 2 : 200. 

 1823; Hym. Eur. 596. 1874; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 424. 1888; 

 Bourdot & Galzin, Soc. Myc. Fr. Bui. 26: 226. 1910; Rea, 

 Brit. Basid. 702. 1922. 



Fructifications scattered or solitary, 2-3 mm. high, cylindric, 

 shining white, glabrous; spores hyaline, even, 4-5 X 33/^-4 [l. 



On rotten wood, New^ York to Louisiana, and on palm in 

 Bermuda. August to December. Rare. 



The specimens which I have referred to S. Candida are white 

 when fresh but becoming pale pinkish buff in the herbarium, 

 uniformly cylindric, often only 1 mm. long by 150 [/.in diameter, 



