Sphaeriacese, Phseosporse, Xylaria. 333 



111. Xylaria Hypoxylon (Linu.) Grev. Flot-a Edin. p. 355. Nits. Pyr. '260 

 Germ. p. 5, Clavar^ia Hijpoxylon Linn. Fl. Suec. ed II, p. 457. 

 Sph. liypoxylon Pers. Obs. rayc. I, p. 20. — Stromate erecto, com- 

 presso-dilatato varieque partito, rarius tereti ac simplici, atro et 

 basin versus villoso ; hymenio conidifero albido, conidiis fusiformi- 

 bus, minimis; clavula perithecigera stipite multo crassiore perithe- 

 ciis ovatis, paullo prominentibus, dense stipatis rugosa, apice ste- 

 rili; stipite clavula plerumque breviori ; peritheciis rarius in stro- 

 mate fere integro irregulariter sparsis ; ascis cylindricis, octospo- 

 ris, longe pedicellatis, 80i;7-8, parte sporif. ; sporidiis fusiformi- 

 bus obtusis, inBequilateralibus, nigricantibus, oblique monostichis, 

 12-14^5^6. 



Hab. ad ligna putrida, cortices muscosos truncorura in tota Eu- 

 ropa, Amer. raerid. et bor., Asia raerid., Cuba, Java, Australia, 

 NataL — Var. Boiomanni Miill. ; gracilis, brevior, 18-24 railL alta. 

 lii Australia, King 's Creek. — Var. mucronata Berk. Ceylon. — 

 Var. pedata, glabra, nigra, clavula subdiscreta pedato-incisa ; sti- 

 pite clavulara superante. Cum vulgari. — Var. cupressiformis Pers. 

 X cwpressiforynis (Woodw.) Fr., minor, simplex, clavula discreta, 

 cylindrica conico-acuminata. In Suecia et Germania. 



112. Xylaria cupressiformis Becc. in Erb. critt. ital. n. 1278, Lichen- m\ 

 agaricus cupressiformis Mich. N. pL gen. 104, t. 55, fig. 2, nec 

 Pers. — A A"". Hypoxylo difFert induraento basilari pannoso, rufo- 

 brunneo, nec hirsuto; sporidiis oblongo-navicularibus, latitudine 



sua fere triplo longioribus (in X. Hypoxylo latitudine vix duplo 

 longiora sunt). 



Hab. in truncis Populi in sylva Pisana (Ital. media) ubi le- 

 git 0. Beccari. — X cupressiformis Ces. Myc. Born. p. 17, ex 

 Sarawak (Borneo) huc forte quoque spectat. 



113. Xylaria Massula Ces. Myc. Born. p. 15. — Xylarice cupressi- 1262 

 formi aliquantulum similis; clavulis gregariis, dimidium centime' 

 trum ad summum altis, ovatis in stipitellum abrupte attenuatis, 

 obtusis, rugosis, atris; ascis linearibus, sporidiis cymbiforraibus al- 

 ternatim versis, uniseriatis, utrinque obtusis, continuis, e virenti 

 fuscidulis, sub-opacis, 8 =; 5. 



Hab. in Sarawak Bornei ad Mattang, in corticibus et ligno de- 

 nudato. 



114. Xylaria aristata Mont. Syll. Crypt. n. 694 et Guy.. mss., n. 497, 1263 

 t. 5, f, 6. — Simplex aut furcata, filiformis, carnoso-suberosa ; 

 clavula ex ovoideo spha-rica, mucronato-aristata, urabrina, Isevi; 



