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Hypocrea rufa Fr., Bo wood, on oak. 



typhina B., on living grasses, Bowood, &c. 



Genus CCLXXXVII., Endothia Fr. Red or tawny. Perithecis 

 irregular, pallid, cellular. Asci diffluent. 



Genus CCLXXXVIII., Xylaria Schrank. Vertical. More or 

 less stipitate. Stroma between fleshy and corky, covered with a 

 black or rufous bark. 



Xylaria polymorpha Grev., Eudlow, &c., on stumps. 



hypoxylon Grev., very common on wood. 



carpophila Fr., Bowood, on beech mast. 



I bulbosa B. and B., Lucknam Grove, fir plantations. 



Genus CCLXXXIX., Thamnomyces Ehrh. Stem shrubby, or 

 simple. Perithecia formed of the same substance as the stem. 



Genus CCXC, Poronia Fr. Between fleshy and corky. Fructi- 

 fying surface margined, concave, or flat, orbicular. Perithecia 

 immersed, vertical. 



Genus CCXCI., Hypoxylon Bull. Stroma corky, or brittle, con- 

 vex, or plane, immarginate, at first clothed with a floccose veil^ 

 then with a black crust, distinct from the matrix. Perithecia 

 vertical, or divergent. 



Hypoxylon ustulatum Bull., Rudlow, &c., on stumps. 



gastrinum Fr., ditto on elm timber, &c. 



concentricum Grev., ditto on ash trees. 



coccineum Bull., on beech trees, Bowood, &c. 



multiforme Fr., Rudlow, on wood. 



fuscum Fr., ditto common on sticks. 



Genus CCXCII., Biatrype Fr. Stroma partly formed from tho 

 matrix, and not distinct from it ; perithecia sunk, elongated above 

 into a distinct neck, and often rostrate. 



Diatrype bullata Fr., Rudlow, on willow. 

 ' undulata Fr., ditto on stumps. 



stigma Fr., ditto common on sticks. 



disciformis Fr., ditto on beech. 



favacea Fr., Spye Park, on birch. 



verrucoeformis Fr., Rudlow, on sticks. 



■ lanciformis Fr., Spye Park, on birch. 



