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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. 
КЕү TO THE SPECIES 
НЕСИЕ ааа. 522 трап 
с ТЕ, ТЕН Т a т е E IL 8. дірді 
1. Fructifications white or but slightly cream-colored................ 
LE Fred NOEL. eed eerie RIT 9er ы A қ; 
Fructifieations white, scattered, cylindrie, mouth not contracted; = 
DIOE os eee гуз ул eee eee . S. candida 
Fructifications white, fasciculate, mouth contracted; spores ойс 
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Fructifications straw-color or shining white; in California.. kc S. gracilis 
Fructifications white, crowded, confluent into a reticulate form: ; spores 
ЖЗ КЕЗЕ 2. Se 3. S. polyporoidea 
Fructifications deals crowded, slightly tinted with cream; spores 
db X FS Bs i ra a e eee 4. 8. conferta 
Fructifieations white, cylindric, villose; in Sweden............... 13. S. villosa 
3. Fructifications ochraceous; spores 10-11 X 414 u; on stems of 
Бы 2-4. 5. S. filicina 
Fructifications sulphur-colored; spores subglobose....6. * sulphurea 
Fructifications some shade of brown; spores 6-11 X кале. u 
Fructifications pallid neutral gray, cylindric-clavate or X er 
ОМОР OC БИИ mm Cabot. = So Se т.а ne 8. S. cinerea 
Fructifications cinereous, cup-shaped, sessile; spores ion X 
«Ыбы re mene UE ы та S. poriaeformis 
Fructifications partially buried in the subiculum; mede 5-6 X 
$a hh VO... 625 uS 10. S. subporiaeformis 
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: pl. 8, f. 1. 1795; Fries, Syst. Мус. 2: 200. 
1823; Hym. Eur. 596. 1874; басс. Syll. Fung. 6: 424. 1888; 
Bourdot & Galzin, бос. Мус. Fr. Bul. 26: 226. 1910; Rea, 
Brit. Basid. 702. 1922. 
_ Fructifications scattered or solitary, 2-3 mm. high, cylindric, 
white, glabrous; spores hyaline, even, 4-5 x 314-4 и. 
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 cylindrie, often only 1 mm. long by 150 y in diameter, 
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