CLASSIFICATION 429 



** Spores coloured. 



C. jraxinicola.- — Snow-white, cup-shaped, sessile, minutely 

 downy ; hymenium pale yellow, becoming darker. 



To the naked eye appearing as very minute, sijow-white cups. 

 Not half a line across. 



On ash bark. Scattered or gregarious. 



C. muscicola.- — Membranaceous, subsessile, cup-shaped, drooping 

 or pendulous, minutely fibrillose, whitisli, edge irregularly torn and 

 wavy, downy ; hymenium even. 



About 2 lines across, whitisli ; the whole plant becoming dingy 

 ochraceous when dry. 



On mosses. 



C. ochroleuca. — Very pale ochraceous, membranaceous, villose 

 or downy, cup-shaped, the margin becoming lacerated or torn, 

 sessile ; hymenium ochraceous. 



On dead bramble stems. Scattered. 



SOLENIA 



Minute fungi, more or less cylindrical in form, hollow, and with 

 the mouth or opening at the top more or less contracted ; usually 

 downy or hairy externally. 



Allied to the genus Cyphella, but differing in the narrowly 

 cylindrical form and densely crowded habit, usually hundreds of 

 the minute sporophores are closely packed side by side, resembling 

 so many drain-pipes standing on end. This can only be observed 

 under a pocket lens. 



5. maxima. — Gregarious, but not very crowded, whitish or pale 

 buff, downy, subcylindrical, base slightly narrowed, about i line 

 high. 



Forming patches | in. or more across. Our largest species. 



On rotten wood. 



5. fasciculata. — Usually forming crowded patches, cylindric- 

 clavate, whitish, silky, -^-J hne high. 



Distinguished by its white colour. 



On dead wood. 



5. anomala. — Usually densely crowded and forming large patches, 

 pear-shaped, margin of mouth incurved, rusty or ochraceous, 

 downy, about \ line high. 



Either forming small crowded patches, or quite continuous for 

 several inches, when it superficially resembles a species of 

 Poria. 



On dead wood and bark. 



var. oc//rrt6tYf.— Differs from type in scattered liabit, smaller size. 

 Usually gregarious, but not densely packed. 



On rotten wood, bark, etc. 



