612 139. Hypox. 6. SARCOTHALAME:. Pl. cell. aph. 
V. 139. HYPOXYLON. Hypoxylon. 
Thallus long, slightly clubshape, or branched; leather- 
like; inside blackish; outside whitish; ¢hece roundish; 
mouths circular, in the circumference of the thallus. 
1. Hypoxylon pedunculatum. Footstalked hypoxylon. 
Thallus leatherlike, corky, black, bald; inside white; 
stipes simple, roundish, slender; club ovate, conical. 
Spheria pedunculata, Sowerby Fungi, 437. 
Clavaria parasitica, Withering Bot, Arr. 4, 397. 
On lycoperda. 
2. Hypoxylon ophioglossoides. Adders-tongue hypoxylon. 
Thallus blackish; inside yellowish green; club ovate, 
roundish, thickened. 
Clavaria radicosa, Bulliard Champ. 195, 
Spheria ophioglosseides, Persoon Syn. 4. 
Spheria radicosa, De Cand. Syn. 154. 
On heaths and pine-woods ; autumn.. 
Club sometimes 2-cut. 
3. Hypoxylon cornutum. Horned hypoxylon. 
Thaltus leatherlike, corky, black, compressed, grega- 
rious; base hirsute; tip white, powdery. 
Clavaria Hypoxylon, Lin. Syst. Veg. ed, 15, 1013. 
Spheria cornuta, Hoffm. Crypt. 4, 11. 
Spheria Hypoxylon, Persoon Syn. 53 Sowerby Fungi, 55. 
On rotten wood in gardens. 
Thece below the tip. 
@. cupressiforme. Thallus small; club bellied or round, 
pointed. 
Spheria cupressiformis, WVoodward in Wither. Bot. Arr. 3,457, 
Lichen-agaricus nigricans, cupressiformis, ramosus et non ramosus, 
lignis aridis adnascens, Micheli N. Gen. Pl. 104. 
y- ramosum. Thallus slender, very much branched. 
Spheria ramosa, Sowerby Fungi, 3993. 
4. Hypoxylon polymorphum. Very-various hypoxylon. 
Thallus leatherlike, corky, black, bald, gregarious; in- 
side white, tip yellowish, compressed, branchy, tuberculate. 
Clavaria digitata, Fl. Dan. 900. 
Spheria digitata, Sowerby Fungi, 69. . ; 
Spheria carcharias, Gmel. Syst. Nat. 2, 147A. 
Spheria polymorpha, Persoon Syn. 7. 
On rotten, decayed wood. 
Thallus very variable; tip of the club blunt. 
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