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

 long, 7j /i long. 7 ' 



On rotten wood, Cuba and Alabama. 



** ff ea( l subglobose. 



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



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

 above. Head semiglobose, five-twelfths of an inch across, slightly 

 papillose from the projecting perithecia. Ostiola very small. 



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



X. clavulus; B. & . Grev. IV, p. 47. 



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

 the head about 1 line high, not laccate, rather thick for the size of the 

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

 species." 



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



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

 * Head clavaie, stipe slender, elongated. 

 X. Geoglossum, (Schw.) 



SphcBria 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, subpronrinent, 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 by Dr. Torrey. No habitat given. 



X. multiflda, (Kunze). 



Sphceria muUifida, Kze. sec. Leveille in Ann. Sci. Nat. 1845, III, p. 45. 

 Xylaria multijida, 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 [i. 



On trunks, Java and Central America. 



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



