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black, Stipe cylindrical, pale yellow, lineate-rugose. Sporidia ob- 

 long, 7J fi long." 



On rotten wood, Cuba and Alabama. 



' r Head subglobose. 

 X. cudoiiia, B. & C. 1. c. 



Slightly laccate, shining; stem J an inch long, nearly 2 lines thick 

 above. Head semiglobose, five-twelfths of an inch aero??, slio-htlv 



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papillose from the projecting perithecia. Ostiola very small. 

 On a dead tree, Santee canal, South Carolina (Ravenel). 



X. clavulus, B. & C. Grev. IT, p. 47. 



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" Gregarious, seriate. A miniature of the preceding. Stem with 

 the head about 1 line high, not lacc;it<>. rather thick for the size of tin- 

 plant, penetrating the convex, papillate head. A very curious little 



species.'' 1 



On the dead stem of some grass, Texas (Wright). 

 B. Head fertile throughout, stipe villous (Xylocoryne), 



' Head clavate, stipe slender, elongated. 

 X. Geoglossmn, (Schw.) 



Spheeria Geoglossum, Schw. in Journ. Phil. Acad. V, tab. i, fig. 4. 

 Xylaria Geoglossum, Sacc. Syll. 1245, Cke. Syn. 691. 



Carnose-suberose, simple, very black. Head tongue-shaped, com- 

 pressed, somewhat furrowed, falcate, obtuse at the apex. Perithecia 

 oblong, black, subprominent, white inside. Ostiola minute, scarcely 

 prominent. Stipe three times longer than the head, squamulose, sub- 

 hirsute at the base, slender, suberose. black outside, white within. 

 About an inch high. Resembles a Geoglossum. 



Sent from New York bv Dr. Torrev. Xo habitat stfven. 



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X. niultiflda, (Kunze). 



Sp/tczria multifida, Kze. sec. Leveille in Ann. Sci. Nat. 1845, III, p. 45, 

 Xyhn-ia multifida, Cke. Grev. XI, p. 85. 



Conidial stroma erect, furcately and palmately divided, whitish, 

 Ascigerous stroma simple, erect, black, clavate. Stipe as long as the 

 head, slender, black, (glabrous)? Perithecia globose, black, subpromi- 

 nent. Asci cylindrical, stipitate. Sporidia fusiform, obtuse, inequi- 

 lateral, brown, 10-12x4-5 u. 



On trunks, Java and Central America. 



Greatly resembles X. Hypoxylon. of which it may be a variety. 



