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subglobose, substance of stroma white within, becoming hollow 
with age. Asci cylindrical, 8-spored. Sporidia (22-25x5 y) 
lanceolate, straight, or slightly curved, continuous, brown. 
In woods. Queensland. N. 8. Wales. 
1519. Xylaria grammica. Mont. Syll. No. 680.=Xylaria 
ectogramma. Berk. Linn. Journ. xm., 177. Sacc. Syll. 
1189, 1197. Grev. xi., t. 163,/. 12. 
Large, corky, club-shaped (3 in. long, £ in. thick), crustate, 
laccate, rigid, fragile, sooty black, smooth, becoming whitish. 
Clubs elongated, confluent with the stem, acuminate at the apex, 
obtuse, marked longitudinally with flexuous, anastomosing lines, 
which are scarcely impressed, hollow within ; perithecia thin, in 
determinate lines or series, ostiola papillate ; asci subcylindrical. 
Sporidia elongated, elliptic, 15-18x4 y. Stem sometimes as 
long as the club, sometimes very short, almost obsolete. 
On trunks. Victoria. Queensland. 
1520. Xylaria rhopaloides. Kunze. Mont. Ann. Sc.i. Nat. 
1885, 99. Grev. xi., 1. 163, /. 14. Sacc. Syll. 1234. 
Simple, clavato, shortly stipitate (3 c.m. high, 5 m.m. thick). 
Clubs cylindrical, obtuse, attenuated downwards into a short, 
smooth stem, stroma rugose, glaucous, then black, rough with the 
ostiola. Perithecia numerous, rather small. Asci cylindrical, 
shortly stipitate. Sporidia elliptical, continuous, brown, 10 x 5 y. 
On putrid wood. Queensland. 
1521. Xylaria Schweinitzii. B. fy G. Exot. Fungi 284. 
Sacc. Syll. 1222. Grev. xi., t. 163,/. 15. 
Club elliptic, obtuse, corky, compact; stem elongated, distinct, 
laccate, quite smooth, slightly cracked ; perithecia globose, ostiola 
scattered, scarcely prominent. Sporidia cymbiform, 30 y long. 
On rotten wood. Victoria. N.S.Wales. 
1522. Xylaria rhytidophlaea. Mont. Syll. 687. Sacc. Syll. 
1200. Grev. xi., t. 163, f. 21. 
Simple. Stroma indurated, horny, compressed, obtuse, or 
horn-shaped, black, opaque, fuliginous within; stem very short 
and thinly rugosely reticulate ; perithecia peripherical, globose, 
immersed, ostiola rather prominent ; asci cylindrical. Sporidia 
small, oblong-ovoid, brown, 10-13 x 6 y. 
On wood. Victoria. Queensland. 
1523. Xylaria Zealandica. Cooke Grev. vm., 66. Grev. xi., 
t. 163,/. 22. Sacc. Syll. 1209. 
Simple, slender, stipitate, black ; clubs cylindrical, rugose, obtuse 
above (18-20 m.m. long) ; ostiola minute, following the veins ; 
stem smooth, channelled (25-35 m.m.); asci cylindrical. Sporidia 
broadly fusiform, uniguttulate, dark brown, continuous, 32-35 X 
10 y. 
On rotten wood. Queensland. N. Zealand. 
