SOLENIA. 143 



On mosses. About two lines across, wMtish, th.e wliolo 

 plant dirty ocb.raceous wiien dry. 



Cyphella ocliroleuGa. B. & Br. 



Very pale ochraceous, membranaceous, villous, cup-shaped, 

 margin becoming torn, sessile ; bymenium oobraceous ; 

 spores very pale ochraceous, elliptical, 6x4//. 



Cyphella ochroleuca, B. & Br., Berk., Outl., p. 277; Cke., 

 Hdbk., n. 948 ; Stev., Brit. Fung. 285. 



On dead bramble stems. Scattered, 1-H lines broad. 



SOLENIA. Hoffm. (fig. 8, p. 94.) 



Sporopbore cylindrical, more or less contracted at the 

 mouth ; cavity everywhere covered with the hymenium ; 

 basidia tetrasporous. 



Solenia, Hoffmann, Deutschl. FL, t. 8 ; Cooke, Hdbk. 1, p. 

 329. 



The species are all minute, rarely exceeding 1 line in 

 height narrowly cylindrical and tubular, the tube being 

 more or less contracted at the mouth, and internally every- 

 where covered vrith the hymenium. The species grow on 

 rotten wood, and are often densely crowded. Closely allied 

 to Cyphella, distinguished by the contracted mouth of the 

 tube and the crowded habit. At one time the species were 

 considered as belonging to the genus Peziza, before the 

 microscope revealed the presence of basidia. Fries places 

 the genus in the Polyporeae, but each tube in the present 

 genus is an individual or sporophore, and not simply a 

 hymenophore. The external hairs are in most species rough 

 with particles of lime. 



* Externally white. 



Solenia maxima. Mass. (n. sp.) 



Gregarious and subfasciculate, but not crowded; subcy- 

 lindrical, slightly contracted at the base, externally villous, 

 •with slender aseptate hyphae rough with minute particles of 

 lime, whitish or pale buff, about 1 line high ; spores ellip- 

 tical, minutely and obliquely apiculate, 5 x 3 /«.. 



On rotten wood. Forming patches ^ in. across. Distin- 

 guished by its large size. 



