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instructis. Paraphysibus filiformibus, septatis. — Species mensuris micro- 

 scopicis valde constans. 



Ad folia sicca Crescentiae cucurbitinae (?) in insula St. Croix Indiae 

 occidentalis (Leg. Raunkiser). 



St. Croix: Caledonia Valley 2.2.06 (nr. 1780). 



Xylaria (Xyloglossa) lignosa Ferd. et Wge. sp. n. PL H, fig. 6. 



Stromate grosse clavato, compresso, subcurvato, leviter torto, solido, 

 lignoso, apice obtuso, postice in stipitem crassum, brevissimum, glabrum, 

 clavae concolorern sensim attenuato, extus ruguloso, fusco, ex ostiolis 

 peritheciorum nigro-papillato, intus ex argillaceo fumoso, long, (specim. 

 maxim, examinat.) circ. 11 cm., crass. 4x2 cm. Peritheciis dense 

 stipatis, late ellipsoideis , ^/4 — 1 mm. x ^/a — ^'U mm. Ostiolis papilli- 

 formibus, nigris, subnitentibus, poro minuto pertusis. Ascis plurimis 

 jam resorptis, paucis evanescentibus visis, poro jodi ope coerulescente. — 

 Sporis e dorso elongato-ellipsoideis, e latere navicularibus, utrinque rotun- 

 datis, guttulatis, 14 — 18;i X 6 — T^l^fi, maturis atris. 



Ad truncos in insula St. Croix Indiae occidentalis. (Leg. Raunkiser). 



St. Croix: Jolly Hill 2. 1. 06 (nr. 1711b). 



Xylaria (Xyloglossa) sessilis Ferd. et Wge. sp. n. PI. II, fig. 7. 



Clavulis ellipsoideo-cylindraceis, basi subito constrictis, sessilibus, tex- 

 tura carbonacea intusque denique cavis, 3 — 4 mm. long., 2 mm. crass., 

 rugosis, fuscis. Peritheciis globosis, circ. ^/2 mm. diam., ostiolis papilli- 

 formibus, minutissimis, sub lente etiam aegre conspicuis, prominentibus. 

 Ascis cylindraceis, juvenilibus apice usque 7 ju incrassatis, truncatis, poro 

 jodi ope coerulescente, in stipitem longissimum leniter attenuatis, para- 

 physatis^ maturis evanescentibus, p. sp. 80 — 100^ x 6 — 7 /u. Sporis 

 monostichis, e dorso ellipsoideis vel oblongo-ellipsoideis, nonnumquam 

 ovatis, e latere inaequilaterali-subnavicularibus, saepeque curvulis, 11 — 15^ 

 long, (vel paucis ultra) x 5 — 6 ju crass., 2-guttulatis, fuscis. 



Ad ramulum corticatum in insula St. Thomas Indiae occidentalis. 

 (Leg. Raunkiser). 



St. Thomas: 1905 (nr. 3100). 



Xylaria subtorulosa Speg. F. Puigg. nr. 269. 



Identic with this species or at least nearly related to it is a single 

 young specimen of a Xylaria from 



St. Thomas: Crown 1. 12. 05 (nr. 1688). 



Xylaria suhtrachelina P. Henn. Fungi St. Paulenses III, p. 207. 



A rich material of this species enables us to make some additions 

 to the species-diagnose 1. c. — The stromata are not always single but 

 here and there caespitous and then they have a much developed brownish 

 felt at the base. Sometimes the clavula is two-parted. Beneath the fertile 



