scopiformis, with which it agrees in the slender, fragile, nodular 

 clubs and spores. It appears to be same as Theissen figures as Xylaria 

 carpophila var. luxurians, attributed to Rehm, but it does not agree 

 either with Rehm's figure or spores. 



XYLARIA APICULATA, FROM JOHN A. STEVENSON, 

 PORTO RICO. Clubs black, Y 2 -i cm. long, apiculate, rarely obtuse. 

 Surface with fine, raised lines. Stipe black, filiform, about I mm. 

 thick, smooth, varying much as to length, ^ to 4 cm. Spores mostly 

 6 x 12-14 rarely up to 24 mic. long, when young with a large gutta; 

 when old with an indistinct septum. 



This is a common plant in the American tropics. Our illustration 

 (Fig. 1003) is the usual size, but it varies much as to length, both as 

 to stipe and clubs. Usu- 

 ally it is simple, rarely 

 there are two clubs on 

 the same stem, and 

 more rarely a stem bears 

 four or five little fas- 

 ciculate clubs. The real 

 character of the species 

 is the raised lines on the 



clubs, as shown in our enlargement (Fig. 1006). We take a name 

 for the plant proposed by Cooke and the type photograph seems to 

 be same as our figure 1003. It is the most suitable name, though 

 originally the type is from New Zealand and described as having 



Fig. 1004. 



Fig. 1005. 



Fig. 1006 



larger spores than the American plants usually have. We think it is 

 same species however. It is probable that Xylaria trachelina, named 

 by Leveille from West Indies, is the same plant, from description, 

 but we have found no type. 



same W hint "^ qUeSti n but that the followin g were based on the 

 Xylaria hypoxylon var. mucronata, as Berkeley labeled a speci- 

 t has no relation to Xylaria hypoxylon and the name 

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