Sphaeriacefe, Phseosporae, Xylaria. 337 



cea, clavula palmato-iiicisa, fimbriata, pubesceiite, luteo-carnea, sti- 

 pite subbulboso nigro, villoso. 



Hab. in rarais et ligQis dejectis Carolinae, Pensylvanige, Cey- 

 lon, Cuba. — Valde singularis plantula, in statu sterili ImricB asmu- 

 la. Specimiua solitaria, '/3 unc. alta vel paulo ultra; basi bulbosa, 

 ovata, villosa, abrupte nigricante; clavula apice sterili compressa, 

 irregulariter fimbriata dentataque, tuberculata; subinde in raraos 

 palraatos finditur. Color in siccis ob pubescentiam pulverulentam 

 albicans. Perithecia minuta. Junior Thelephoram quamdam in me- 

 moriara revocat. 



125. Xylarla Feejensis (Berk.) Fr. Nov. Symb. 128. Sphmria (Hy- 1274 

 poxylon) Feejensis Berk. descrip. fung. Hinds p. 10. — Suberosa, 

 simplex, vel sursura palmata, fusco-purpurea, rugosa, rimulosa; 

 peritheciis minutis subglobosis subprominulis, ostiolis nigris; stipi- 



te brevi vel nullo; sporidiis minutis, segmentiformibus. 



Hab. in truncis putridis Feeje, insulas m. Pacifici (R. B. Hinds). 



126. Xylaria dichotoma Mont. Syll. p. 204. Cuba, p. 351, t. 13, f. 3, 1275 

 sub Hypoxijlo, nec Lev. — C^spitosa, subcarnosa, teres, dicho- 

 toma, sub axillis compressa, atro-fusca opaca, solida, intus pallida, 

 undique, apicibus stipitibusque villosis exceptis, peritheciis minu- 



tis, globosis prominentibus papillatis tecta. 



Hab. ad ligna dejecta, Cuba (Ramon de la Sagra). 



127. Xylaria Arbuscula Sacc. M. V. n. 1192. Mich. I. 249. Fung. ital. 1276 

 t. 583. — Gregaria, fasciculata, arbusculiformis, atra ; stipitibus gra- 

 cilibus, cent. IVo-^V-) ^lt. mill. 1^2"^ cr., adscendentibus, tomen- 

 tosis; clavulis (conidiophoris) attenuatis, ssepe compressis, apice 

 albicantibus (conidiis nondum visis), clavulis pyrenophoris tereti- 

 bus, apice breviter sed acute cuspidatis, V2-I ^ent. long., 1-1 V2 

 mill. cr., initio longitudinaliter cinereo-rivulosis, tandera, ob pe- 

 rithecia, depresse tuberculatis; peritheciis globosis immersis, vix 



Vj mill. diam. papillulatis ; ascis cylindraceis longiuscule stipitatis, 

 p. sporif. 80 s 8-10, stip. 30-40 long., apice rotundatis, aparaphy- 

 satis, Ssporis; sporidiis oblique raonostichis, oblongo-fusoideis, 14- 

 16 i: 5-7, curvulis, 1-2-guttatis, initio hyalinis, dein cinereis, tan- 

 dem atro-fuligineis. 



Hab. in cistis ligneis putrescentibus muscosis Orchideas tro- 

 picales hospitantibus in calidario Horti Levi, Treviso, Ital, bor. — 

 A Xyl. Hypoxylo (L.) Grev., X cupressiformi (Mich.) Becc. et 

 pluribus exoticis satis diversa. 



128. Xylaria acuta Peck, 25 Rep. p. 101. — Gregaria aut cffispito- 1277 



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