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soft and easily erushed 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 slightly larger than European specimens. Two 
of our gatherings cited below have still the thin mycelium or 
subieulum, eommon 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, А. Galzin, 18240, 18221, comm. by Н. Bourdot, 
16094 and 15752 respectively. 
Canada: Toronto, J. Н. Faull, Univ. Toronto Herb., 640 (in 
Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 44909). 
Vermont: Middlebury, Е. А. Burt, three gatherings. 
New York: Altamont, E. A. Burt; East Galway, E. A. Burt. 
New Jersey: Newfield, Ellis & Harkness: | in Ellis, N. Am. Fungi, 
937. 
SS Mountain Lake, W. A. Murrill, 403 in part (in Mo. 
Bot. Gard. Herb., 54531). 
South Carolina: H. W. Ravenel, in Ravenel, Fungi Car. 4: 21. 
Florida: Daytonia, R. Тһаліет, comm. by Farlow Herb., 234 
(in Mo. Bot. Gard. 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. 
Бері. 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 14-1 mm. 
in diameter; no subiculum present; fructifications pure white, 
sessile, tubular, 700 u long, 200-300 y in diameter, about 5 to a 
