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 18 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



spores and larger, true, external hairs and less marked confluence 

 of fructifications. 



Specimens examined: 

 Exsiccati: Ravenel, Fungi Car. 5: 42, under the name Solenia 



villosa. 

 Alabama: Peters , in Ravenel, Fungi Car. 5: 42. 

 Missouri: Meramec Highlands, L. 0. Overholts, type (in Mo. 



Bot. Gard. Herb., 14505). 



5. S. filicina Peck, N. Y. State Mus. Rept. 28: 52. 1876; 

 Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 426. 1888. 



An S. villosa Fr? var., Bourdot & Galzin, Soc. Myc. Fr. Bui. 

 26: 225. 1910? 



Type: in N. Y. State Mus. Herb. 



"Cups springing from an ochraceous, white-margined, tomen- 

 tose subiculum, elongated, clavate or cylindrical, deflexed, 

 clothed with appressed hairs or tomentum, ochraceous; spores 

 hyaline, broadly fusiform, containing one or two nuclei," even, 

 10-11 X 43^ |i; basidia simple. 



Fructifications about 250-350 \l in diameter. 



Base of living fern stems. Lake Pleasant, New York. August. 



Peck noted that the basal part of the cups sometimes turns 

 brown and shrinks in drying so that they appear stipitate. In 

 the course of nearly fifty years, the subiculum and cups have 

 become clay color with the margin paler. The hairs clothing the 

 fructifications are only very slightly colored, even, flexuous, 

 75-85 X 3-3J^ [i, tapering to a sharp tip; the spores are not 

 curved but straight, with equal sides, tapering to both base and 

 apex. 



Specimens examined: 

 New York: Lake Pleasant, C. H. Peck, type (in N. Y. State 



Mus. Herb.). 



6. S. sulphurea Saccardo & Ellis, Michelia 2: 564. 1882; 

 Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 426. 1888. 



Type: probably in Saccardo Herb., and N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb. 



Fructifications gregarious, sometimes rather crowded and up 



to 2-3 to a mm., cup-shaped, short-stemmed, sulphur-colored, 



