702 SOLENIA 



elliptical, cylindrical, globose, or subglobose; basidia clavate, with 

 2-4-sterigmata. Growing on wood, gregarious, or fasciculate, rarely 

 solitary. 



*WMte, or whitish. 



2379. S. fasciculata Pers. Pers. Myc. Eur. i, t. 12, figs. 8-9. 



Fasciculate,, in small bundles. 



R. 2-7 mm. high, white, cylindrical, clavate, gregarious, and usually 

 fasciculate, externally minutely silky and almost smooth. Hymenium 

 white, tubular, smooth. Flesh white, thin, soft. Spores white, sub- 

 globose, pointed at the base, 3-5-5 x 3-4/x,, 1-guttulate; basidia 15- 

 20 x 4-5-5/x, with 2-4 straight sterigmata, 4-4-5/u, long. Hyphae 

 hyaline, 2-2-75/x in diam., with thin or thick walls, and clamp con- 

 nections. Rotten wood, and fallen branches; sometimes arising from 

 a white mycelium. Sept. April. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



2380. S. Candida (Hoffm.) Fr. Hoffm. Deutschl. Fl. n, t. 8, fig. 1. 



Candida, shining white. 



R. 2-3 mm. high, shining white, cylindrical, solitary, glabrous. 

 Hymenium white, tubular, smooth. Flesh white, thin, somewhat 

 diaphanous. Spores white, subglobose, pointed at the base, 4-5 x 

 3-4/x, with a large central gutta; basidia 12-15 x 4-5 /i. Hyphae 

 hyaline, thin, -5-1 p in diam. Rotten branches of beech, alder, and 

 ash. Oct. Jan. Uncommon. 



2381. S. maxima Massee. Maxima, largest. 

 R. 2 mm. high, whitish, or pale buff, subcylindrical, slightly con- 

 tracted at the base, gregarious and subfasciculate, externally villose 

 with slender, aseptate hyphae rough with minute particles of lime. 

 Hymenium concolorous, tubular, smooth. Flesh white, thin. Spores 

 white, elliptical, minutely and obliquely apiculate, 5 x 3/n. Rotten 

 wood. May. Rare. 



**Coloured. 



2382. S. anomala (Pers.) Fr. a, not; oyuaXo?, even. 

 R. 2-5 mm. high, dingy ochraceous to ferruginous, turbinate, or 



pyriform, usually gregarious, externally villose. Hymenium pallid, 

 urceolate; margin incurved. Flesh brownish, thin. Spores white, 

 cylindrical, incurved, 7-11 x 3-4 /x; basidia 18-30 x 5-6 /i. Rotten 

 wood, and fallen branches, especially of alder. Jan. Dec. Common. 

 (v.v.) 



var. ochracea (Hoffm.) Berk. Hoffm. Deutschl. Fl. n, t. 8, fig. 2. 



compos, pale. 



Differs from the type in its scattered habit, and smaller size. Rotten 

 wood and bark. Jan. Dec. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



