672 



X. carpophila, (Pers.) 



Sphceria carpophila, Pers. Obs. Mycol. I, p. 19. 

 Xylaria carpophila, Fr. Summa Veg. Scand. p. 382. 

 Exsicc. Fckl. F. Rh. 1066. Kze. F. Sel. 156. Rehm Asc. 150. Thum. M. U. 1266. 

 Sydow, M. March. 1063. Roum. F. G. 1383. 



Stroma erect or ascending, slender, lanceolate, often curved, 

 simple or spathulate-enlarged at the apex and cleft or two-parted, or 

 sometimes with two heads on one stipe, mostly round, but sometimes 

 subcompressed, black, more or less woolly-tomentose at base. Club 

 thicker and mostly shorter than the stem, mostly cylindric-lanceolate, 

 bearing only a few, sometimes only one, perithecinm, the sterile apex 

 subulate, otherwise roughened by the somewhat prominent, globose or 

 ovate perithecia, with papilliform ostiola. Asci cylindrical, stipitate, 

 8-spored, p. sp. 80x6 fi. Sporidia uniseriate, obtuse-fusoid, dark 

 brown, inequilateral, 12-16x5 p.. Conidia ovate, very small. 



On nuts of Liquidambar, South Carolina (Ravenel), on decaying 

 hickory nuts, Pennsylvania (Everhart), on old cones of magnolia, New- 

 field, N. J. 



The length of the stem varies according to the depth at which 

 the nuts from which it grows are buried. 



** Stroma furcate or divided. 



X. Hypoxylon, (Linn.) 



Clavaria Hypoxylon, I v inn. Flora Suec. Ed. II, p. 457. 



Clavaria hirta, Batsch Elench, Cont. I, p. 229. 



Clavaria cornuta, Bull. Champ, torn. I, p. 193, tab. CL,XXX. 



Valsa digitata, Scopoli, Flora Carniol. II, p. 398. 



Sphceria cornuta, Hoff. Veg. Crypt. I, p. 11. 



Sphceria digitata, Bolton Fungi Hal. Ill, p. 130. 



Sphceria Hypoxylon, Pers. Obs. Mycol. I, p. 20. 



Sphceria ramosa, Dicks. Plant. Crypt. Brit. IV, p. 27. 



Xylaria Hypoxylon, Grev. Flor. Edin, p. 355. 

 Exsicc. Thum. F. Austn 766. Cke. F. Brit. Ser. I, 363, Ser. II, 215. Roum. F. Gall. 172. 

 Kze. F. Sel. 155. Kriegr, F. Sax. 141 I,inht. F. Hung. 71. Sydow, M. March. 

 342. Rehm Asc. 825. Rav. F. Am. 648. Ell. N. A. F. 162. Desm. Pi. Crypt, de 

 France, Ed. I, 331. 



Stroma erect, simple or variously branched, round or compressed, 

 black, woolly-tomentose at base, 5-8 cm. high, lanceolate, with a 

 sterile tip ; stem mostly short, distinct from the fertile head, which is 

 roughened by the more or less prominent, ovate, thickly crowded, 

 black perithecia with papilliform ostiola. Asci cylindrical, long- 

 stipitate, 8-spored, p. sp. 75-80 x 7-8 ju. Sporidia obliquely uniseriate, 

 fusoid, inequilateral, obtuse at each end, black, 12-16 x 5-6 pi 



On rotten wood, common. 



The conidial hymenium which covers the young stroma is white: 

 conidia fusoid, 10 x 3 //. 



