Sokfiia 



THELEPHORACEiE 



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Fig. 105. — a, 

 anomala Fr., X 5. 

 with c, section, X 



Solcnia 

 B, ditto 

 20. D, 



XC. SOLENIA Hoffm. 

 (From the short pipe-like shape ; Gr. so/en, a pipe.) 



Cylindrical, more or less contracted at the mouth, the external 

 hairs in some species rough with particles of oxalate of lime, cavity 

 covered with the hymenium. Basidia tetras- 

 porous. (Fig. 105.) 



The species are all minute, rarely exceeding 

 T V in. in height. They grow, usually in crowded 

 masses, on rotten wood. They are closely 

 allied to Cyphella, but are distinguished by the 

 densely crowded habit and by the cylinders 

 never expanding. 



Fries has placed this genus in the Poly- 

 poracece, but each cylinder in Solenia is a distinct 

 Peziza-like plant and not comparable with a 

 mere tube of one of the Polyporacece. To be 

 allied to the Polyporacece each cylinder should 

 be lined with minute basidia-bearing tubes. 



Species 1923—1925 



Externally white. 1923, 1924 basidium and spores, X 500. 



Externally ochreous. 1925 



1923. S. maxima Mass. (from the comparatively large size of the 



spores ; maximus, largest) a. 



Gregarious or sub fasciculate, not crowded, subcylindrical, slightly 



contracted at base, externally villous, with slender aseptate 



hyphas rough with minute particles of oxalate of lime, whitish 



or pale buff, ochreous when dry. 



Forming patches ^ X 5 in. May. ^ X ^ in. Spores 5 x 3 m- This is 

 1925, var. cinerea Cooke. 



1924. S. faseieulata Pers. (from its growing in groups or fascicles) a be. 

 Gregarious, usually fasciculate, cylindrico-clavate, externally 



minutely silky and almost smooth, sometimes faintly shaded, 

 brownish-yellow. 

 Willow, pine. Nov. -April. ^ x 3 ^ in. Spores 4 p.. 



1925. S. anomala Fr. (from its superficially anomalous or perhaps 



scattered character) a b c. 



Usually densely crowded, pyriform, forming effused scattered 



patches ; marg. incurved, pilose externally, varying from dull 



ochreous to ferruginous. 



Birch, willow, vine, oak, beech, dog-wood. Aug. -May. i&Xjgin. Spores- 

 7 X 4 [J.. Yar. ochracea Mass. is somewhat smaller in size than type. 



