320 SplKeriacea?, Phaeosporse, Xylaria. 



54. Xylarja stilboidea Kalch. et Cooke. Grev. 1880, p. 28, tab. 137, i^-o^ 

 tifj. 2G. — Parva, siipitata; capitulo .subgloboso, atro (1-2 y.. diam.) 

 ostiolis exertis asperatutn; stipite cylindrico, fusco (l-17o mill. 

 long.) ffracili; strornate albo; peritheciis atris, iminorsis; ascis 

 cyliiuificis; sporidiis uniseriatis, ellipticis, atro-fuscis 14-15 r 5. 



llab. in ligno putri iu Africa australi. — Minuta stirps, habitu 

 Siilbi cujiisdam :(MnuIa. 



55. Xylaria Telfairii (Berk.) Sacc. Sp/ireria (Cord.) Tclfairii Berk. i?04 

 Exot. Fungi Hook. p. 397. — Coriacea, clavata, apice obtusiuscu- 

 la solida, cortice fragili cervino obducta, ostiolis peritheciorum 

 punctulata: peritheciis niajusculis subglobosis; ascis cyliQdraceis, 

 octosporis; sporidiis coffeiformibus, srepe 1-guttulatis. 



Uah. in insul. Mauritia (Telfair). — Adest in h. Klotzsch sub 

 noniine 5. involutcB. — Stroma 50 rnill. alt., 12 miil. cr. — Se*c. 

 Curr. Comp. Sphaer. n. 7. fig. 8 {S. invohita Kl.) fungus siccan- 

 do finditur et cortex cum peritheciis secedit; sporidia monosticha 



elliptico-reniformia, 16-18 a. longa, fuliginea. 



56. Xylaria tentaculata B. et Br. fex Rav.) Cuban F. n. 796, North i?os 

 Amer. Fungi n. 826. — Stipite elongato, tenui, glabro fusco; ca- 

 pitulo brevi cylindrico, ostiolis adscendentibus asperato, apice pro- 

 cessibus longis tentaculiformibus coronato. 



Uab. in lignis muscosis putridis in Cuba, Ceylon, Carolina inf., 

 Cordova. — Stroma 2 cent. alt., 2 mill. cr., capitnlum 2-4 mill. 

 longum; ostiola prominula; tentacula 12-12 mill. longa. Affinis X. 

 como>icr Mont. Sporidia non descripfa. Conidia elliptica 5 y.. longa. 



57. Xylaria Thyrsus (Berk.) Sacc. Sphfuria Th>/rsus Berk. Notic. fun- 120(5 

 gi Herb. British Museum. p. 384 (1843). Clathrus acuminafus 

 Roxb. — Suberosa, simplex, clavula obovata acuminata pallida; 

 peritheciis sursum spectantibus magnis, ostiolis subelongatis obtu- 

 sis nigris; stipite elongato cjlindrico deorsnm longissime radicato; 

 ascis linearibus obtusis, 8-sporis; snoridiis subcymbiformibus, fuli- 

 gineis. utrinque hyalino-mucosis. 



TTab. in horto botanico, Calcutta, Ind. Or. i 



58. Xylarla Titan B. et C. North Am. Fungi n. 823. — Gigantea, ^^OT 

 allaiitoidea, dura, extus albida; ostiolis nigris promiiientibus. 



Hab. in truncis in Texas Amer. bor. — Alta 12 cent, 5 cent. 

 crassa. botuliformis, hinc convexa, hic concava, solida, alba, spo- 

 ridiis ffcdata. ostiolis prominulis punctulata. 



59. Xylaria tortuosa Sow. MS. in Herb. Kew., Cooke in Grev. VIII, l?08 

 p. 10. — Suberoso-fragilis, repetito-ramosa, angusta et rhizomo- 



