; 
} 
XXXI. A PRELIMINARY LIST OF MINNESOTA 
XYLARIACE/. 
Pi. Ke Burrers. 
During the past fifteen years numerous collections of Min- 
nesota fungi have been made by E. W. D. Holway, Esq., Dr. 
A. P. Anderson, Messrs. E. P. Sheldon, E. M. Freeman and 
others. The list given below comprises records of all the 
‘“Xylariacee which have been collected within the State and 
deposited in the herbarium of the University of Minnesota. In 
each case the county in which the collection was made is cited, 
with the date of collection, and such other information as is 
deemed of special value. A list of the fungi collected by 
Holway was included in Professor J. C. Arthur’s report on 
botanical work in Minnesota for the year 1886,* but they are 
included in the present list for the sake of completeness. Some 
of Mr. Sheldon’s specimens as well as the fungi included in 
Professor Arthur’s list have been previously determined, but in 
all cases the fungi reported in the following list have been ex- 
amined personally by the author and he takes the sole respon- 
sibility for their correct determination. In cases where the 
determinations as given in Arthur’s list have been altered the 
name as it appears in that list has been inserted in parentheses 
after the citation of the collection. 
In all cases in which the nomenclature employed departs 
from that found in Ellis and Everhart’s North American Py- 
renomycetes, the name employed in that work is inserted as a 
synonym. 
It is to be noted that the specimens distributed by Ellis ¢ as 
fypoxylon rubiginosum (Pers.) Fr. are certainly of a different 
species from those distributed by de Thiimen { and other Euro- 
* Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota, Bulletin No. 3, 
Oct. 1, 1887: 
t+Ellis & Everhart. North American Fungi, 1949, Fungi Columbiani, 1324. 
t Mycotheca universalts, 1071. 
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