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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: S. Brown, N. L. Britton & F. J. Seaver, 1499 (in N. 



Y. Bot. Gard. Herb., and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 61649). 



2. S. fasciculata Persoon, Myc. Eur. 1: 335. pi 12, f. 8 and 9. 

 1822; Fries, Syst. Myc. 2: 200. 1823; Hym. Eur. 596. 1874; 

 Schweinitz. Am. Phil. Soc. Trans. N. S. 4: 180. 1832; Morgan, 

 Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist. Jour. 9: 7. 1886; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 

 6: 424. 1888; Bourdot & Galzin, Soc. Myc. Fr. Bui. 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, 4-53^ X 3-4 \l, 4-6 x 3-5 y. 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 



