AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 
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1524. Xylaria scopiformis. ( Kunze .) Mont. Sacc. Syll. 
1288. 
Simple, slender, often fasciculate, 2-3 c.m. long. Clubs (1-1^ 
c.m. long, 1 m.m. thick) cylindrical, acute at the apex, black ; 
stem about as long as the club, smooth, often compressed ; peri- 
thecia few, large, inflating the clubs so as to appear nodulose. 
Sporidia unequal sided, dark brown (10-12x3^ p,). 
On wood. Queensland. 
ft Furcate. 
1525. Xylaria ovispora. Che. Mass. Grev. xv., 101. 
Stroma coriaceous, black, stipitate, erect, furcate and palmate 
above, attenuated downwards into the smooth stem. Asci cylin- 
drical ; sporidia subglobose, brown, 6x5 /i. 
On stumps. Queensland. 
1526. Xylaria gracilis. Klot. Hook. Herb. Sacc. Syll. 
1188. 
Coriaceous. Stem smooth, furcate, fastigiate, clubs cylindrical, 
narrow, acute, sterile at the apex (36-40 m.m. high), rugose, 
black. 
On wood. Queensland. 
b. Capitulum clavale, stem thick and short. 
1527. Xylaria polymorpha. Grev. FI. Edin. 355. Sacc. 
Syll. 1150. 
Stromata 2 to 6, rarely more, connate at the base in clusters, 
rarely solitary, erect, thick, smooth, clay-coloured brown, then 
black, sometimes simple, with the apex and base more or less 
attenuated, or quite obtuse, sometimes obovate and compressed, 
or furcate, sometimes also subglobose; perithecia rather prominent, 
rugulose, immersed all over the clubs, densely crowded, ovate or 
subglobose, papillate ; asci cylindrical, 140-180x8-10 p ; sporidia 
subfusifonn, or nearly ovate, acute at the ends, unequal sided, 
brown, 20-22 x 5-9 /x. 
On wood. N.8. Wales. Queensland. 
1528. Xylaria cerebriformis. Cooke Grev. xi., 86, t. 165, 
f. 46. Sacc. Syll. 5946. 
Large, corky, stipitate, sooty brown, stem scarcely 1 in. long, 
3 in. thick, woody, smooth, sulcate, sometimes lateral ; club some- 
what elliptic (1| x 1 in.), deeply sulcate, otherwise rugose, brain- 
like, at length nearly smooth, white within ; perithecia small, 
globose, black, crowded ; ostiola very minute, scarcely visible, 
plane; asci cylindrical; sporidia narrowly lanceolate, straight or 
curved, brown (9-10 x2| p). 
On wood. Queensland. 
1529. Xylaria cynoglossa. Cooke Grev. xii., 1. Sacc Syll 
6355. 
Umber, tongue-shaped (12-15 c.m. long, 3 c.m. broad), very 
shortly stipitate, flesh white ; perithecia crowded, cylindrical. 
