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FETCH. 
The perithecia are projecting, with an acute ostiolum ; 
internally they are oval, being flattened in the direction 
parallel to the clava, and measure 0*5 x 0*3 mm. The asci 
are cylindric, with a long tapering pedicel, the sporiferous 
part measuring 68-72 X 6 The spores are black-brown, 
cymbiform, with rounded ends, 9-12 x 5-6 [jl. 
In some respects this species resembles Xylaria fiUformis 
A. & S., but it is smaller, and its spores difler from those of the 
available specimens of the latter. It may be named Xylaria 
vagans. 
Xylaria vagans n. sp. 1-4 cm. alta ; stipite 0.5 mm. diam. 
nigro, glabro, longitudinaliter striate ; clava, 5-15 mm. longa, 
1 mm. diam., continua vel interrupta, apice in processu 
prælongo filiformi producta, peritheciis prominentibus, ostiolo 
acute, ovalibus, 0*5 X 0*3 mm.; asci cylindraceis, longe 
pedicellatis, octosporis, sporis oblique uniseriatis, parte 
sporifera 68-72 X 6 ^ ; sporis cymbiformibus, apice obtusis, 
nigro -brunneis, 9-12 X 5-6 ^ ; mycelio rhizomorphoideo. 
Description of Plates. 
Plate II. — Mycelium of Marasmius equicrinis on a tea branch : 
leaves of the tea removed to show the mycelium. 
X i. 
Plate III. — Marasmius equicrinis growing on dead leaves, twigs, 
&c., developed in the laboratory ; about natural 
size. 
Plate IV. A. — Marasmius equicrinis developed in the laboratory 
from the aerial mycelium : natural size. 
Plate lY .'S.— Marasmius rotalis : natural size. 
Plate V. — Marasmius obscuratus ; natural size. 
Plate VI. — Marasmius coronatus : natural size. 
Plate VII.— -Fig. 1. — ^Mycelium of Marasmius equicrinis on Nut- 
meg : natural size. 
Fig. 2. — Marasmius equicrinis on aerial mycelium : natural size. 
Figs. 3 and 4. — Growing points of the aerial mycelium of Mar- 
asmius equicrinis. X 40. 
Figs. 5-7. — Xylaria vagans, on dead leaves. X 2. 
Fig. 8. — Sterile mycelium of Xylaria vagans. X 2. 
Fig. 9. — Xylaria vagans ; longitudinal section of clava. >C 8. 
Fig. Xylaria vagans ; ascus and spores. X 650. 
