668 



X. multiplex, (Kze. & Fr.) 



Sphceria multiplex, Kze. & Fr. in L,inn. 1830. p. 536. 

 Xylaria multiplex, B. & C. Cuban Fungi, No. 795. 



Cespitose, suberose, dark brown, fertile heads terete-compressed, 

 subdivided, smooth, white inside. Stipes elongated, leprose-villose. 

 Perithecia entirely immersed, globose, crowded. Ostiola punctiform, 

 then subdilated. Sporidia ovoid, 20-22 // long. 



On trunks, in Mexico (Hogberg). 



X. fastigiata, Fr. Nov. Symb. p. 127. 



Stipes densely cespitose-fasciculate, joined at the base, and often 

 grown together so as to appear branched, very variable, compressed, 

 angular, or often torulose and flexuous, an inch or more long, about a 

 line thick, not villose, but covered at first with an appressed, scaly 

 brown coat which finally disappears. Head not separated from the 

 stipe, on which also scattered perithecia occur, slightly swollen, scarcely 

 2 lines (4 mm.) thick, unequal, bare, fastigiate, black. Perithecia 

 small, in a thin, black, peripherical layer, globose and slightly promi- 

 nent. Asci (in the specc. examined) dissolved. Sporidia oblong, 

 somewhat curved, opake. 



On trunks, in Costa Rica (Oersted). 



Allied to X. scruposa and X. multiplex. 



** Head clavate, stipe short. 

 X. corniformis, Fr. Summa Veg. Sc. p. 381. 



Sphceria corniformis, Fr. Elench. II, p. 57. 

 Exsicc. Rav. Fungi Car. IV, 30. Ell. N. A. F. 82, id. 83 (conidia). 



Stromata scattered or subgregarious, sometimes two or three con 

 nected at base, simple, clavate, not compressed, obtuse at the apex 

 3-5 cm. high and 4-5 mm. thick, white at first, becoming brownish 

 black, surface often minutely areolate-rimose. Head clavate, 2-3 cm 

 long, surface roughened by the slightly prominent, papilliform ostiola 

 white inside. Stipe short, black, arising from a spongy tubercular 

 base. Perithecia monostichous, peripherical, small (J mm.). Asci 

 cylindrical, stipitate, 8-spored, p. sp. 60-70 x 5-6 [l Sporidia obliquely 

 uniseriate, inequilaterally elliptical, obtuse at the ends, brown, 8-10 x 

 4|-5 fi. 



On decaying trunks of magnolia, maple, &c, from New York to 

 Michigan and Texas. 



Sphceria flabellif or mis, Schw. Syn. N. Am. 1164, is an abortive 

 form in which the head consists of a tuft of flattened, palmately- 



