1924 
BURT—THE THELEPHORACEAE OF NORTH AMERICA. ХІП 13 
Fructifications coriaceous, soft, resupinate, at first circular, 
pezizoid, and with the thickened, paler margin slightly upturned, 
at length confluent, effused, and with the hymenial surface 
merulioid by the elevated confluent margins and reticulate 
veins, drying deep olive-buff to drab; hyphae with walls gelatin- 
ously modified, nodose-septate ; Баба simple, with 2-4 sterig- 
mata; spores white i in spore collection, simple, even, 8-11 x 5-6 
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Fructifications at first 1-3 mm. in diameter, finally confluent 
over areas 3-8 x 3-5 cm. 
On bark of decaying limbs of frondose species in low woods. 
Louisiana. November to June. 
Although the young fructifications of C. tremellosa are decidedly 
pezizoid in aspect, yet, in the specimens seen by me, these small 
fructifications are in such close proximity to resupinate confluent 
masses of the same color that the resemblance to a Merulius 
is the more striking. 
Specimens examined: 
Louisiana: St. Martinville, A. B. Langlois, 2620, 2670, aw, 594 
(in N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb., and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 61681); 
C. G. Lloyd, 2402 (in N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb. and Burt Herb.). 
SOLENIA 
Solenia Persoon, Roemer Neues Mag. Bot. 1: 116. 1794; Syn. 
Fung. 675. 1801; Myc. Eur. 1: 334. 1822; Hoffman, Deutschl. 
Fl. 2: pl. 8. 1795; Fries, Syst. Myc. 2: 200. 1823; Hym. Еш. 
595. 1874; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 424. 1888; Engl. & Prantl, Nat. 
Pflanzenfam. (1:1**): 129. 1898; Rea, Brit. Basid. 701. 1922. 
Fructifications coriaceous or membranaceous, sessile or nearly 
so, cylindric or turbinate, gregarious, fasciculate, rarely solitary, 
but not joined together except by confluence, seated on a super- 
ficial, felt-like, floccose and sometimes fugacious mycelium; 
basidia simple; spores white or colored. 
The type species is Solenia candida Pers. 
Solenia is closely related to Cyphella but differs from the latter 
by more 
cylindric in the case of most species, and in having the gregarious 
fructifications seated on a more or less manifest mycelium. The 
