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phoidea, nigra, 10 cent. alta, hinc inde ramulos clavatos obtusos 

 fertiles exerens; peritheciis prominulis, aggregatis; ascis cylindri- 

 cis; sporidiis monostichis, anguste fusoideis, utrinque obtusis, le- 

 niter curvis, fuligineis, 20-22 ^ 4. 



Hab. ad terrara in Mead Place Britannife (Sowerby). — Habi- 

 tus X Guepini var. eupiliacce Ces., sed sporidia multo ampliora, 

 V. X. rhizomorphcB Mont. sed huic sunt sporidia minutissima. 



60. Xylaria zelandica Cooke N. Zeal. Fungi, in Grevillea VIII, p. 66. ^^09 



— Simplex, gracilis, stipitata, atra; capitulis cylindricis, rugosis, 

 supra obtusis; ostiolis rainutis, nervisequis; stipite glabro, canali- 

 culato, convoluto; ascis cylindraceis ; sporidiis late fusiformibus, uni- 

 nucleatis, atro-brunneis, 32-35 ^ 10. 



Hab. in ligno putri Wellington, N. Zelandise (Travers). — Sti- 

 pes 25-35 raill. alt. ; capitulura 18-20 raill, longum. — X zeylani- 

 ca Berk. aliena est. Cfr. 



61. Xylaria zeylanica Berk. Fungi of Ceyl. n. 1039. Sphceria (Cor- 1210 

 dyceps) zeylanica Berk. Dec. n. 189. — Suberosa; clavulis lan- 

 ceolatis, compressis, levibus, atro-Iaccatis, cum stipitibus rugosis, 

 brevibus confluentibus ; ostiolis minutissimis ; sporidiis ellipticis, 

 minutis, 



Hab. in ligno putri, Ambagamoa in insula Ceylon (Gardner). 



— 3-4 cent. alta, ostiolis granulat nigra, pruina ferruginea con- 

 spersa. 



62. Xylaria microceras (Mont.) Berk. Cub. Fungi n. 803. Hypoxylon i^w 

 microceras Mont. Ann. Sc nat. 1840, XIII, p. 348, t. 9, fig. 4. 

 Curr. Corap. Sph. n. 17, fig. 18. — Pumila, simplex, raro furca- 



ta; stipite vix ullo; clavula incurviuscula, corniformi, extus velo 

 albo, persistente obducta, intus cinerea, subpulveracea ; peritheciis 

 periphericis atris, iramersis, ostiolo nigro prominulo; ascis cylin- 

 draceis breve stipitatis, octosporis ; sporidiis irregulariter ellipsoi- 

 deis, 10 p.. longis, fuscis. 



Hab. in ligno putri, Cuba, Guiana, Java. — Minuta, 15 mill. 

 alta, 1 mill. cr.. albo-velata, ostiolis nigro punctata. 



63. Xylaria Wrightii B. et C. Cuban Fungi n. 787. — Stipite cylin- ^j^ 

 drico, rimoso, exiccatione rugoso, coffeato e basi spongiosa oriundo; 

 capite subelliptico obtusissimo pallide rufo, deorsura praicipue li- 

 turis oblongis brunneis notato, ostiolis prominulis; sporidiis cym- 

 biforraibus, 22-24 [i. longis. 



Hab. in ligno putri, Cuba. — Stipes 25 mill. alt. ; capituluni 

 25 mill. altum, 10 mill, cr, 



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