254 nymenomycetese. Clavaricse, Laehuocladiuin. 



llab. in li^no putri in Guyana Gallica (Maroni), 



8. Lachnocladium leucoceras Pat. Journ. de Bot. 1889, pag. 33. — 1050 

 Trunoo curto, crasso, villoso, tuberculiformi, io ramos per 2-3 cm. 

 simplices iUmu bi- trichotomoi<. planos, glabros, kves latere sterili, 

 pulvereos vfro et rugosos latere fertili abeunte; axillis rotunda- 



tis, acumine obtuso Scepe interjecto, extremitatibus obtuse rotunda- 

 tis albis; hymenio unilaterali; sporis ovoideis, apiculatis, verru- 

 cosis, ochraceo-brunueis, 8-10 c; 4-5. 



Hab. in silvis in Guadalupa (L' Herminier). — Fuagus5-6cm. 

 in sicco brunneus, latere fertili oohraceus. 



9. Lachnocladium guyanense Pat Journ. de Bot. 1889, p. 35, t. 1, 1051 

 f. G. — Conferte casspitosum, 8-10 cm. alt.; stipitibus numerosi.s, 

 gracilibus, flexuosis, 2-3 cm. long., 1-2 mm. cr., in ramulos gra- 

 ciles extimos aculos dichotomice divisis; stipitibus ramisque uno 

 latere canalicujaiis, fertilibus pulvereis; sporis ochracoo-brunneis, 

 ovoideis nuicronatis. echioulatis, 6-8:5 4-5. 



Hab. ad terram humidam, foliis dejectis tectam, in Guyatia Gal- 

 lica (Maroni). 



10. Lachnocladlum giganteum Pat. .Joura. de Bot. 1880, p. 34, t. I, 1052 

 f. 1. — iJgnosum, elasticum, 15-25 cm. alt. ;truaco simplici, 5-6 

 cm, iong., 8-10 lum. cr., rotundato, canaliculato, sursurn furcato, 

 ramis qninquies v. sexies dichotomico-ramosis, ramulis erectis sen- 



sim tonuioribus, a?quiIongis, ultimis vix incisis; dichotcxniis seini- 

 circularibu.s, axillis compressis, ramulis subcompressis coucavo-con- 

 VGxis; hjMuenio in lat. concavo ifxillisque extensu, pulvereo; spo- 

 ris ovoideis, apiculatis, echinulatis, brunneis, 12- 15=; 8-9. 



Hab. ad terram in fragmeatis ligneis in Guyana Gallica (Ma- 



RONl). 



11. Lachnocladium insigne Pat. Journ. de Bot. 1889, p. 34, t. I, f. 2. 1053 

 — Coriaceum, tenax, ramosissimum ; stipito elongato 6-7 cm. long., 



3 mm. cr., compresso, unifariara canaliculato, in ramos pluries di- 

 chotomos .sonsim ienuiores diviso, e tuberculo ligneo subgloboso 

 oriundo; cami.s compressis, canaliculatis, latere convexo sterili gla- 

 bris, iatere concavo axillisque fertilibus pulverulentis; ramulis ter- 

 minalibus plus minus longis recti? flexisve acutis; sporis subglo- 

 bosis ochraceo-brunneis, basi hyaliuo-mucrouatis, 11-12 ii 8-9, loa- 

 ge spinulosis. 



Hah. 111 sabulosis humosis in Guyana Gallica (Maronij. — Fun- 

 gus 10-15 cm. loog.j rarai primarii 4-5 cm. long. 



