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soft and easily crushed under the cover-glass in preparations 

 and the hairs on the outside of the fructifications are colorless 

 and soft in my preparations stained with eosin. The American 

 specimens become pallid in the herbarium in a short time and 

 may have spores shghtly larger than European specimens. Two 

 of our gatherings cited below have still the thin mycelium or 

 subiculum, common to small groups of young fructifications; 

 this apparently disappears as the fructifications become older and 

 is not evident in most gatherings. The diameter of the mouth is 

 somewhat smaller than that of the cavity into which it opens in 

 this species, so that the apex is merely obtuse. 



Specimens examined: 

 Exsiccati: Ellis, N. Am. Fungi, 937, under the name Solenia 



villosa; Ravenel, Fungi Car. 4: 21. 

 France: Loubotis, A. Galzin, 18240, 18241, comm. by H. Bourdot, 



16094 and 15752 respectively. 

 Canada: Toronto, J. H. Faull, Univ. Toronto Herb., 640 (in 



IMo. Bot. Card. Herb., 44909). 

 Vermont: Middlebury, E. A. Burt, three gatherings. 

 New York: Altamont, E. A. Burt; East Galway, E. A. Burl. 

 New Jersey: Newfield, Ellis & Harkness, in Ellis, N. Am. Fungi, 



937. 

 Virginia: Mountain Lake, W. A. Murrill, 403 in part (in Mo. 



Bot. Card. Herb., 54531). 

 South Carolina: H. W. Ravenel, in Ravenel, Fungi Car. 4: 21. 

 Florida: Daytonia, R. Thaxter, comm. by Farlow Herb., 234 



(in Mo. Bot. Card. Herb., 63044). 

 Louisiana: St. Martinville, A. B. Langlois, 2998. 



3. S. polyporoidea Peck, Mss. n. sp. 



Solenia villosa Fr. var. polyporoidea Peck, N. Y. State Mus. 

 Kept. 41:86. 1888. 



Type: in N. Y. State Mus. Herb. 



At first granuliform and distinct, finally confluent along the 

 sides in contact and forming a more or less connected, reticulate 

 layer with the bare wood showing in many little areas 3^-1 mm. 

 in diameter; no subiculum present; fructifications pure white, 

 sessile, tubular, 700 ^jl long, 200-300 <^ in diameter, about 5 to a 



