512 139. Hypox. Q. SAilCOTHALAME/E. PI; cell apt*. 
\\ 139. HYPOXYLON. Hy poxy Ion. 
Thallus long, slightly clubshape, or branched; leather- 
like; inside blackish; outside whitish; thecce 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. 
Sphaeria pedunculata, Sowerby Fungi , 437- 
Clavaria parasitica, Withering j Sot. 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. 
Sphaeria ophioglossoides, Persoon Syn. 4. 
Sphaeria radicosa, De Cand. Syn. 754. 
On heaths and pine-woods ; autumn. 
Club sometimes 2-cut. 
3. Hypoxylon cornutum . Horned hypoxylon , 
Thallus leatherlike, corky, black, compressed, grega- 
rious; base hirsute; tip white, powdery. 
Clavaria Hypoxylon, Lin. Syst. Veg. ed. 15, 1013. 
Sphaeria cornuta, Hojpm. Crypt. 4, 11. 
Sphaeria Hypoxylon, Persoon Syn. 5; Sowerby Fungi , 55. 
On rotten wood in gardens. 
Thecce below the tip. 
0. cupressiforme . Thallus small ; club bellied or round, 
pointed. 
Sphaeria cupressiformis, Woodward in Wither. Bot. Arr. 3,457. 
Lichen-agaricus nigricans, cupressiformis, ramosus et non ramosus, 
lignis aridis adnascens, Micheli N. Gen. PI. 104. 
y. ramosum. Thallus slender, very much branched. 
Sphaeria ramosa, Sowerby Fungi, 395. 
4. Hypoxylon polymorphum. Very-various hypoxylon . 
Thallus leatherlike, corky, black, bald, gregarious; in- 
side white, tip yellowish, compressed, branchy, tuberculate. 
Clavaria digilata, FI. Dan. 900. 
Sphaeria digitata, Sowerby Fungi , 69. 
Sphaeria carcharias, Gmel. Syst. Nat. 2, 1474. 
Sphaeria polyinorpha, Persoon Syn. 7. 
On rotten, decayed wood. 
Thallus very variable; tip of the club blunt. 
