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and notable by the mouths being nearly or quite the full diameter 
of the cavity of the fructification, as though the fructification 
were truncate. In Hoffmann's illustration, cited for S. candida by 
Persoon in his following works, the enlarged figure shows the 
fructifications as true cylinders with mouths open the full width 
of the cavity. In this figure the fructifications are enlarged to 
length of about 4 mm. and diameter of about 1 mm. and about 
the same distance apart as their length. In the collections which 
I refer to S. candida, the fructifications may be closer together 
than their length but always with small spaces between the fructi- 
fications, which are soft and crush easily under the cover glass in 
preparations. 
Specimens examined: 
New Hampshire: Hanover, G. R. Lyman, 32 (in N. Y. Bot. Gard. 
Herb., and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 61693). 
New York: Buffalo, G. W. Clinton (in U. S. Dept. Agr. Herb., 
under the name Solenia fasciculata, and in Burt Herb.); East 
Galway, E. A. Burt. 
Louisiana: St. Martinville, A. B. Langlois, 1743. 
Bermuda: 8. Brown, N. L. Britton & F. J. Seaver, 1499 (in ЇЧ. 
Y. Bot. Gard. Herb., and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 61649). 
2. S.fasciculata Persoon, Myc. Eur. 1: 335. pl. 12, f. 8 and 9. 
1822; Fries, Syst. Myc. 2: 200. 1823; Hym. Eur. 596. 1874; 
Schweinitz. Am. Phil. Soc. Trans. №. S. 4: 180. 1832; Morgan, 
Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist. Jour. 9: 7. 1886; Saec. Syll. Fung. 
6: 424. 1888; Bourdot & Galzin, Soc. Myc. Fr. Bul. 26: 225. 
1910; Rea, Brit. Basid. 702. 1922.—An Solenia gracilis Cope- 
land, Ann. Myc. 2: 508. 1904? 
Fructifications gregarious and usually fasciculate, cylindric- 
clavate, somewhat enlarged towards the apex, 2-7 mm. high, 
white, minutely silky, almost smooth, sometimes rising from a 
thin, white mycelium; spores of European specimens white, 
even, 4-514 x 3-4 u, 4-6 х 3-5 u in American specimens. 
The specimens of S. fasciculata from France, sent to me by 
Bourdot and determined by him, have retained their white 
color for the seven years since gathered ;they are seated on a white 
subiculum, common to the group of fructifications, and are 
